@phnt @a1ba @koakuma i feel like people should be more bothered by the fact vaccines get a dedicated vaccine court packed with pro-vaccine doctors as judges for Reasons(tm) but in general no OTHER field of specialized knowledge apparently imposes competence requirements on the court.

there is actually a decent case to be made that judges shouldn't be allowed to preside over shit they don't understand. i'm not sure how that should affect juries though.

the "jury of your peers" is lineaged to the magna carta where it meant knights tried by knights. so in theory juries should be people of the same professional class as the person on trial, *not* 13 random morons. so a software trial *should* be presided over by other software developers as jurors.

ironically whether you get jailed or pay big fines is determined by an imbecile but whether you keep your medical license actually does obey the magna carta (medical society hearings are tried by peers.) which is how you end up with people being convicted of stuff but keeping their licenses (they made some mistake that normies didn't like but in the context of the skillset it was within acceptable margins of error.)