I never really liked silly questions like this
SilverWarder Send a noteboard - 05/03/2010 02:23:36 PM
Suppose we discovered that a definite X percent of all prisoners were actually innocent victims of a government conspiracy. But we can't even begin to identify which prisoners are the victims and which are actually deserving of imprisonment.
We do know that they are mixed equally with all classes of offenders. So, for instance, X percent of them are on death row, and the same percent of them are trustees.
How high would the percentage of innocents have to get before you'd be most comfortable just releasing everyone?
We do know that they are mixed equally with all classes of offenders. So, for instance, X percent of them are on death row, and the same percent of them are trustees.
How high would the percentage of innocents have to get before you'd be most comfortable just releasing everyone?
I don't like them because they're impractical. There are ALWAYS going to be some people who you KNOW are really guilty of real offenses no matter how creepy the government is.
That said, before even talking about 'releasing everyone' why not just overthrow the government? Once that's done we can re-try everyone that's questionable.
Sure it would be a big job but big screwups of a totalitarian government usually are a bear to fix.
So, in answer, at no point would I ever consider just 'releasing everyone'. Fix the problem in a practical, sensible way instead.
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A level-of-comfort question regarding imprisonment of mixed innocent and guilty groups.
- 05/03/2010 02:39:53 AM
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as things stands, I don't think we'd ever reach a level where that'd be necessary oO
- 05/03/2010 03:24:07 AM
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100%
- 05/03/2010 03:47:31 AM
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Law of averages says there are certainly many innocent people in prison.
- 05/03/2010 04:09:41 AM
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Doesn't matter
- 05/03/2010 04:22:19 AM
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Clarification: X% of them definitely did not meet the standards of reasonable doubt.
- 05/03/2010 09:44:09 PM
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A relevant question; it seems to hinge on where one draws the line.
- 05/03/2010 04:19:34 AM
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I never really liked silly questions like this
- 05/03/2010 02:23:36 PM
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If there were 2,000,000 innocent and only 1 guilty, retrying everyone would not be practical.
- 05/03/2010 09:22:16 PM
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That's silly though
- 05/03/2010 09:39:53 PM
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Re: That's silly though
- 05/03/2010 11:11:50 PM
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Re: That's silly though
- 06/03/2010 12:11:06 AM
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what does the chance of reoffending have to do with guilt?
- 05/03/2010 10:02:21 PM
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Debt can be paid off, leaving the question of rehabilitation. *NM*
- 05/03/2010 10:32:38 PM
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I still don't see the realtionship to guilt
- 05/03/2010 10:59:28 PM
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Re: I still don't see the realtionship to guilt
- 05/03/2010 11:31:51 PM
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there is a reason they call it the justice system and not the rehabilation system
- 05/03/2010 11:33:55 PM
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It's called all kinds of things
- 06/03/2010 12:02:00 AM
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Re: It's called all kinds of things
- 06/03/2010 05:44:32 AM
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Well, we aren't going to agree at all (and I DID say it was opinion)
- 07/03/2010 09:00:37 AM
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