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> A Maryland judge was ousted from office for shocking a defendant who did not stop talking when asked, leaving the man hollering on the ground in pain while the court took a recess.

The video of the shock is linked in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYfzrof2g4o

It's much more jarring that just reading the description of the event. How can we organize our society to ensure these events are never incentivized to happen?

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It's absolutely unbelievable that something like this could occur in modern society. It makes me fearful for the future, not convinced that we are much more advanced than aggressive apes. The way everyone else in the court just ignores the man is like something out of my worst nightmare of the Milgram experiment. Despicable.

I agree, the way everyone else ignores him is unreal. I didn't believe this could occur in modern society either.

There doesn't seem to be an easy fix. The judge is at least partly conditioned by the environment they were raised in. The engineers fed their families with the income earned from building the pain belt.

It makes me wonder how I might be complicit in harmful consequences I can't predict. I'm wondering what actions I could take personally to avoid doing damage like this in the future.

This is our modern "justice" system at work. Defendants and incarcerated persons are not treated with human dignity.

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