The upshot of a convo with an AI about the real-world risks of blowing off a summons for jury duty.

Oh no! Not communications!

So yeah. I’m leaning hard toward pretending I never saw it. Damn the torpedoes. I got important shit to do.

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Context: I’ve been summoned many times, including once for a grand jury in fucking Phoenix, and appeared like a good drone citizen. I actually served in a case exactly once (it was local). My experiences as a potential and real juror, and my study of my society and its institutions, have consistently led me toward the considered opinion that ‘the justice system’ has fuck-all to do with actual justice.

For the simple reason that that’s the sooth as I know it, “serving” a broken system as a volunteer cog holds zero interest for me.

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For deeply connected reasons, I’m going to look into un-registering to vote, if that’s a thing. I know that they’ll still bother me with this jury nonsense simply because I hold a license to drive in the state, but …

Maybe it’ll cut the number of summonses in half? A potential minor upside to something I should probably do as a matter of conscience anyway.