I think it’s a pretty stretched metaphor, but has some amusement value. I disagree that the jury is the buggy thing, though. The jury is the firmware that mediates between the justice system and the real buggy thing, which is human decisions based on fear of the justice system.
lawyer ~ social programmer
precedent ~ import ‘precedent’
judge ~ debugger
jury ~ the actual, buggy thing that runs in the very end
jargon ~ lang syntax
Wouldn’t a lawyer be more of a compiler or interpreter for the legislature/programmer?
I think it’s a pretty stretched metaphor, but has some amusement value. I disagree that the jury is the buggy thing, though. The jury is the firmware that mediates between the justice system and the real buggy thing, which is human decisions based on fear of the justice system.