r/Juridique

If race is included as a criterion of consideration to give someone a job, then it becomes rational to judge people’s ability to perform at that job partly on their race.

For everyone who got the job, this was due to some combination of being qualified and being of the right race. We might say that someone’s qualifications can be ranked from 1-5, with 1 being completely incompetent and 5 being world-class. A final score is computed by adding this qualification level to either 1 or 0 depending on whether you are of the right race or not. To get the job, you need a final score of 5.

The question is how qualified should you expect someone to be given their race and the fact that they got the job. The fact that they got the job tells you that their final score was 5, but this isn’t equivalent to their qualifications. You can use their race to figure out their true qualification level. Among the people who are of the wrong race, their race added nothing to their qualifications, so their expected qualification level is exactly 5. Among the people who are of the right race, some of them are 4s who got a 1 point boost from their race and some are 5s who would’ve gotten the job anyways. The expected level of qualification is therefore less than 5. Thus it would be entirely rational to expect different levels of performance based on race.

Leftists often pretend not to understand this (I expect to see this behavior in the comments), but this is just them being bad faith. They’re not so stupid that they can’t grasp such a simple concept. If they think it’s bad for people to make assumptions about someone’s ability based on race, then they should be in favor of eliminating DEI and affirmative action. Anything other than pure meritocracy makes it rational to judge based on race and other demographic traits.

Public defenders get bad reps. With my experience and educational background, I can easily get a high paying job at a law firm but I love my job and would never consider working for a law firm or for myself. It pains to me to see the prices that private attorneys charge or when clients decide to hire a crappy private attorney because they think their case will be managed better with a private attorney but the reality is that most private attorneys are pretty terrible, they don't know what they're doing, and they charge clients for appearances that are even completely avoidable. They take money from a client knowing a case will get dismissed with 0 work required. They don't show up for the arraignment, make one of us public defenders do it and then take the money from the client even after I've already figured out the resolution or informed them the case is going to be dismissed on the next court date.

Further, while our caseloads are high, we have resources that most private attorneys don't.

People need to be made aware of this and learn more about what PDs actually do so AMA.

How do you perceive the US American tipping culture slowly sipping into European society?

I’m from Slovenia, and here its customary to tip if the service has been exceptionally pleasant. That DOES NOT mean the waiter being in your face 24/7 and basically promise you their firstborn like some desperate waiters (need to) do in the US due to the culture and laws around salaries.
At the same time however, I do not approve of tips becoming an expectation, even demand, for also the most basic acts of “what do you want - here is your food” or mediocre to bad service.

I personally much rather prefer to tip farmers at vegetable and fruit markets, who stand at the stand all day trying to sell their produce in all weathers and temperatures, while still having to haggle and sell their hard work for really low prices.

So, do you think the EU should pass a law that makes tipping an option and not obligatory, and that “no tip” buttons have to be at least of equal size and prominency than tipping buttons on payment terminals?
Basically the same than the obligatory unsubscribe button on mass messages, that we by now take for granted, because the EU protects us from having to spend ages searching through deceptive websites to find a way to unsubscribe to some spam mail.

(Same for obligatory table charges - should that have to be clearly stated in big in the menu/at the door, as opposed to being slipped on the bill at the very end.)

As title says I have seen some posts saying men get screwed over by the courts compared to women I don’t really know much about this topic is this true

J'habite en France depuis 2 ans et j'ai remarqué que les piétons ne respectent pas vraiment les feux de circulation (et j'en fais partie 😅)

Même si le feu est rouge pour les piétons, s'il n y a pas de voiture les gens traversent la rue.

C'est plutôt logique mais je voudrais quand même savoir s'il est possible qu'un policier va t'arrêter et te mettre une amende pour ça ?

(Ps. En Allemagne un policier peut te mettre une amende de 5€)

Si l’on est victime d’une agression violente (vol dans la rue, la nuit, avec coups) et que l’on appelle la police, les policiers ont-ils le droit de refuser de venir ?