One of the downsides of jury nullification not mentioned in the video is that it doesn't afford higher courts the opportunity to correct defects in the law.

In the UK an eleven and a twelve year old boy set fire to some newspapers, which unknown to them spread to a wheelie bin, which spread to another wheelie bin, which spread to a shop and eventually caused ~£1 million damage. They were convicted of arson despite an extremely reluctant jury and even judge, because while it was acknowledged that the boys didn't foresee the risk of the fire spreading the standard of recklessness at the time (which had persisted for around two decades) was an objective one referring to the judgement of a hypothetical reasonable adult.

It took their conviction, and the Court of Appeals upholding that conviction, for the House of Lords to reexamine the bad precedent they'd set in an earlier case and finally revert the standard to a subjective one of the defendant's actual capacity.

It may take thousands of nullifications before legislators even notice that their terrible laws aren't being enforced, while one unsound conviction can make a difference. So your strategy as a juror may be to convict in obviously stupid cases (unconstitutional ones in the US, say), but nullify where the law appears to be functioning as intended but conflicts with your conscience.

No it fucking doesn't.

Well that was incredibly disgusting.

This guy's channel is dangerously addictive. They're all these sub-five minute videos titled "A point about..." and I can't stop clicking on them. What about scimitars? What about the hoplite cuirass? I HAVE TO KNOW.

It surprises me that mathematicians don't know logic.

If you alternate two of anything to infinity then you must have an even number of each. +1-1... = (1-1)infinity = 0

Maths troll successful I guess, but I don't see that this can possibly be wrong.

Zero.

Noah Webster - deluded moron.

Can't someone explain to France that they're doing it wrong?

French is just a terrible language in general; the sooner everyone's speaking English exclusively the better for humanity.

Thanks for this. Now I don't know how to speak.

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Fixed, thanks!

Any sample of white people, really, given the methodology.

But actually every human who has ever lived is related to every other human who has ever lived. Also, everything else that is alive on earth.

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So you're saying this is roughly the same results you'd get from any sampling of Americans?

Maths.

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How should we have already known? How did you already know?

>> ^bananafone:

I was being sarcastic with the effeminate/inferior thing (well, mostly). What you're doing is the opposite of slut-shaming. It's sad.
Some people just aren't into some things. Mystery solved.
>> ^gorillaman:

This guy does want sex, and he wants it with this girl, he just not willing to be cool about it and have the threeway. My point, as much as I had one and wasn't just being whimsical, is that he's an idiot, not that he's effeminate and therefore inferior.


I get you now. I guess I wouldn't be too pleased if someone told me, "So your girlfriend wants to shit on your chest, just be cool about."


I do wish people would be a bit more sexual and drop some of their hang-ups, but I was being somewhat dogmatic.

>> ^bananafone:

>> ^gorillaman:
I don't get it. I suggest I'd be up for a threeway with another guy and the conclusions you draw from that are 1. I'm repressed and 2. I'm a homophobe?

Actually it's a different kind of bigotry. A much more pervasive one. Guys who don't want sex are seen as inferior since it's supposed to be women who don't want sex. And we can't have men acting like women.

This guy does want sex, and he wants it with this girl, he just not willing to be cool about it and have the threeway. My point, as much as I had one and wasn't just being whimsical, is that he's an idiot, not that he's effeminate and therefore inferior.

I don't get it. I suggest I'd be up for a threeway with another guy and the conclusions you draw from that are 1. I'm repressed and 2. I'm a homophobe?

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>> ^gorillaman:

I don't understand, this video is about a woman offering a man sex and he's saying no?


Let me guess, the next thing you're going to do is question his sexuality.

I feel bad for men. Your expression of sexuality is so limited.