To be fair, having children in Afghanistan is barbaric.

No, this is Saudi we are talking about — they worship pedos and depravity. They just don’t want to get bombed.

Same vibes as “my calculator has a tiny mathematician trapped inside.”

Or “there’s an artist inside of my printer who turns numbers into pictures.”

Sometimes we use technical jargon to say something that we later realize is fairly simple. It might be obvious in retrospect, but still require thousands of years to understand, during which time the technical language is essential.

Anyway, other times we just need new words for new concepts. You can’t contemplate what you cannot name. Even the smartest humans are stupid by default and ordinary language is outstripped by our intellectual ambitions.

New concepts require new words. They also relate to each other in interesting ways, which have names, too.

Alternatively, if I ever wanted to assert something more complicated than the weather I’d need to re-build the entire conceptual framework from scratch using small words and pictures.

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Legally speaking, jury nullification is real. Try to absorb this fact, which should be taught in every school.

More importantly, when corruption is the norm and other democratic avenues have failed, jury nullification isn’t just a legal option, it is the only rational one. Next comes vigilantism.

What precisely is the point of a jury if you’re going to complain about how they vote? Of course jury nullification could be bad. And of course it can be good. All legal systems are made up. The whole idea is to allow people — a jury — the freedom to decide for themselves.