RE: What do you do in court?
June 21, 2013 at 12:53 am
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2013 at 12:53 am by Cyberman.)
I had to do precisely this back in 2010 at the Coroner's Court, after the coroner's inquest to determine the cause of my poor sweet Sam's death. I had no problems with doing so, other than the obvious ones about actually having to be there at all of course.
Incidentally, the verdict was "sudden unexpected death due to epilepsy", basically legalese for "we don't have a fucking clue but we need something to put on the death certificate".
As far as I'm concerned, it's like someone blessing me when I sneeze, or invoking a deity during sex (I have a long memory). It's just a thing that is done. I don't actually believe that the book has any magic powers to force me to tell the truth or whatever the symbolism means; it's merely a formality.
Incidentally, the verdict was "sudden unexpected death due to epilepsy", basically legalese for "we don't have a fucking clue but we need something to put on the death certificate".
(June 20, 2013 at 9:16 pm)callahan24 Wrote: What about someone who does not believe in a holy book?
As far as I'm concerned, it's like someone blessing me when I sneeze, or invoking a deity during sex (I have a long memory). It's just a thing that is done. I don't actually believe that the book has any magic powers to force me to tell the truth or whatever the symbolism means; it's merely a formality.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
