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Originally Posted by MikeSP1
How is showing respect to an individual and an institution that should demand your full respect a "dumbass tradition"? The court room isn't high school or Sturgis. The individual with the gavel (or the twelve people on the side of the room, depending on what you've done) has the authority to send you to jail, make you pay a fine, make you stand at an intersection with a "Only an idiot would pass a school bus" sign, or send you to death row. That judge also has the power to issue warrants to search anything you own. Being flippant to someone that has that kind of power is simply not wise.
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Plenty of people have the power to fuck up my life, including police officers, DA's, and my bosses at work. But I don't have to call them "your honor" or rise when they enter the room. It just seems silly in this day & age. I'm not in the military, so I shouldn't have to rise when an authority figure enters the room.