2 months ago a similar thing happened to me as well, jury duty up ended me in a civil case where injury was claimed by a woman who claimed for 250,000 damages for a small bump on the rear.professional doctors leAving their professions left their jobs and became professional witnesses because of the high price of medical insurance, and the former was lucrative. It was a circus to apprehend the way these doctors countered each other coming to opposite conclusions , using the same set of data. The jury was aghast, and confused, but finally came to a reasonable judgement based on no appearance injury, and only payout based on evidence of property damage.
As we exited the glaring hate of the woman and her lawyer were quite evidentiary of their attitudes based on deception.
I agree, presumptions have to be made, yet they are needed for utilitarian purposes. The thing is, the party who is more articulate and convincing is the one the jury usually finds for.
The presumption of innocence issue has come up in reference to the Mueller investigation just very recently, by conservative criticizing Mueller for using the very opposite of that legal maneuver, by accusing Mueller of presuming Trump’s guilt. This is bad form, and gives ammunition to Republicans for bias, the kind which arguably can remove all perceived guilty parties, up and down the Justice Department, giving forey into Mueller’s dismissal.
The mind staggers at the ramifications top to bottom.
And every once in a while I go manic, rather then my depressed counterpart, and I get to savor a sweetness of life as peachy. Gotta be grateful for mania.
Only during these rare moments do I ever think anything I could think of could possibly come true.
Yet there will always and forever be that old gray mare. Some call her a nag.
You can sometimes, but not by telling.when it comes, fill in but not build a bridge from a suspended arch sitting on a middle base, rising to expected tension when two ends meet, add a little from one, then the other end, so as to feel the meeting of an emerging cupola, but reading the tension, as it creates a supportable balance, stronger then if, it beats its pressure down to a real upstanding single leg. Go inward toward the pressure, not outward, to the sides, let them be their support , stronger, unseen.
Draw an imaginary arch of where they will end up, rather than postulating on a pre drawn expected point.
Its more of an inner sanctum.
Up the ante, for there is little hope in synthesis.
Probably the ideas get stuck, and then they come up from some source, unglued , a trigger , that is an controllable urge, may be, usually spring, in the season of and/or like a myth of springing from ahead, from vast catacombs of hidden memory, may be or June even April.
Identity is difficult , but the ideas never go anywhere because they are nowhere. Nowhere, man, nowhere man, they are always reconstructed after a good night’s sleep, from the vestiges of what remains the days before. Other then that everyone acts a role, he thinks appropriate for the occasion. Thanks for remembering. Does that mean that I am an inadequate or unconvincing actor in any stage , or on any stage?
Guess the fear of falling masks an antidote: comic relief: but what if per chance the mask drops, literally as in ancient Greece? Can that coincide with an analysis of what lies below it?(the mask)? Is that what the birth of tragedy is all about? The shared but unknown depth of which it is said, not to individually look into?
Underground travelers must loose some of the fear, all of it would drop to the fears of the jungle, and perhaps leave to unimaginable terrors.
And what of masks? The notion of an authentic self political party is rather nutty. I really have so much I should be a republican. And I an’t what a democrat has become.
I think taxes are little more and can be so much less then the contribution made for the environment in play to make money. Advantage is a creation. Those who reap it should pay for it because they didn’t create the condition. Society, culture and government did.
It really fucks with my head from a human rights perspective but I can understand it from an evolutionary perspective. Are values cultural or genetic, or a mix