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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Your employer legally can't do anything about it and the effectiveness of the judicial system relies on a large cross-section of the population being available to serve as a jury for their peers. Weaseling out of jury duty when serving isn't a genuine hardship is one of my biggest pet peeves.
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Quoted for truth.
If you want the comfort of having a system where you may choose to be tried by a jury of your peers, consider what constitutes "peers" if all good, regular citizens bail on jury duty. You will be left with a pool of borderline Springer-watching bingo addicts who have trouble stringing two thoughts together, much less retaining and considering evidence presented in a trial. I have never been called up, but if I have to go I will go. Mind, there may be the requisite whining and bitching, but I will do my civic duty unless I find there really is genuine hardship at the time of trial.