| >to assume that judges are not managing their own hunger to the extent that it’s affecting their job performance. >Why wouldn’t surgeons or pilots have the same problem? Firstly, this is such an incredibly naive view of the world, especially in regards to the type of professionals that proliferate the legal system. Past that, surgeons and pilots DO have these issues. The airline industry has religious standards and procedures for how pilots prepare and "rate" themselves before a flight mainly due to how visible egregious pilot errors typically are; in the case of surgeons the insurance company does it best to sweep things under the rug. Pilots are supposed to be well rested, but then you have incidents like Northwest Airlines Flight 188[1], and pilots admitting they fall asleep more than you would imagine[2]. It's hard to gather data on surgeon-specific incidents since the medical industry does its very best to sweep things under the rug, but it's estimated that 400,000 deaths occur unnecessarily while in the hospital due to medical malpractice [3]. None of these systems or data are made available in the legal system, because it's all "scratch my back" etc. So no, you really shouldn't trust judges (or anyone else in the legal system) since there are no systems of accountability. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24296544 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_188#... [3]: https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/fulltext/2013/... |