We know that a certain percentage of people I prison are innocent. Even considering the fact that in many of those cases the "innocent" person is likely guilty of other crimes there has to be a certain percentage of truly innocent people in prison. How many murders and rapist are you willing to turn loss on society to free these few innocents? Do we sacrifice these people’s futures future victims on the altar of good intentions?
We should strive to keep the system as fair and accurate as possible but that doesn't mean we need to cripple ourselves with guilt because we make mistakes. A better question is what is the alternative?
On a side note I think we could make the system better by clearing our courts of frivolous law suites and unproductive drug convictions.
We should strive to keep the system as fair and accurate as possible but that doesn't mean we need to cripple ourselves with guilt because we make mistakes. A better question is what is the alternative?
On a side note I think we could make the system better by clearing our courts of frivolous law suites and unproductive drug convictions.
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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there is no perfect system
- 05/03/2010 04:58:16 PM
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