GENERAL (arkanis) wrote in incompletedata, @ 2017-08-16 08:33:00 |
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[ Squad Ten. ]
I voted against this Constitution.
While I was not alone, I was distinctly in the minority. An overwhelming majority of people here possess opinions - ways of approaching life and indeed reality, really - fundamentally different from my own. This is not a surprise.
That minority, however small, exists. It will continue to do so, at least as long as I am here, and probably after. To prevent its members from holding the tools of meaningful representation because they do not represent the majority is, in my opinion, one of the vicious paradoxes of democracy. In a system in which everyone must follow the strictures of the constitution - which I very much mean to do - to shunt aside minority views because they are in the minority would seem to me to breed a particularly pernicious form of injustice.
Council Representative is not a position in which I would excel, on your behalf or on that of the population entire. My discomfort with this form of government leaves me ill-suited for that job. I feel strongly that I should serve as a Juror. In part this is to ensure that a diversity of views is present in a body that will be deciding the guilt or innocence of (among everyone else) members of the same minority in which I currently stand. I think it very important that, simply because that minority view has been voted down in the passage of the constitution, its adherents should not be forever despairing of seeing their own faces in the crowd of people judging them.
Very likely I've said things which many of your find reprehensible. Be that as it may, adherence to the written law in as close and objective a manner as possible is my guiding vein, and has been for a very long time. Under this system, that is an asset for a Juror. It seems to me that our entire collective is best served if the Jury is composed of as varied a slate of people as possible. I'd ask you to consider that goal when selecting your Juror, rather than simply looking to who best fits the majority view. And I would ask you to consider me.