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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
remember all this when your biased police officer pulls you over and charges you will all kinds of crazy shit just because its ok to apply personal bias to the law and he doesn't like the length of your hair.
tell him your totally cool with it and your totally in support of his "personal bias" while doing his job applying what is supposed to be a black and white law.
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That's a very poor example, police officers' use their experience and bias all the time to apply the law. I'm guessing you don't get stopped when you are traveling 3 mph over the speed limit.
In fact, in your case above, it is very likely that
bias and experience of a judge and/or jury would help you --- as they could see that you might have been charged outside of normal behavior b/c of the prejudicial bias of the officer.
Where, if they strictly applied the law, and you were in violation then they might not have much empathy for your situation.
you want things both ways (bias to determine qualifications beyond the constitutional requirements; yet pretend judges are not selected b/c of their bias), that's why you've brought up an unrelated hypothetical.