Too dumb, or too smart for our own good?

I have been following some IT news related to technology patents lawsuits. For your information, reading about the way patents are being awarded and some of patents that were granted are actually great sources of entertainment, it actually borderline on being comical.

But it is not the point of this blog.

The point is, all too often I would come across a comment expressed by people in the online community, “the existing patent law is faulty because most technologies are highly complicated, how can you trust the outcome of a multi-million law suit to a bunch of guys who are too stupid to weasel out of the jury duty?”

I am really not a big fan of that idea that people are dumb if they get selected for the juror duty. What happen to fulfilling ones civil duties? I remember the movie “Runaway Jury”, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were experts in juror selection and manipulation, and the same ill  idea was spoken by Gene’s character earlier on in the movie.

I would approach it from another angle. God forbid if one day you are the defendant or the plaintiff, do you rather have someone knowledgeable and logical to be in the juror box? In another word, do you want someone like yourself to be sitting in that box? If you do, then I will suggest that you stop dodging this responsibility.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."