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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
No, a competent justice system balances the risk of innocent people being punished against the risk of letting the guilty go without consequences. Minimizing the chance that innocent people will be punished is simple...don't have a justice system at all.
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Then Western cultures have, for the most part, operated without competent justice systems since at least the time of the Romans.
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Originally Posted by honorgal
Blackstone's ratio:
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".
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Or as Ben Franklin rephrased it: "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
If one more person types the phrase "false dichotomy" I am closing this thread. SydneyK started that phrase trend.
/not a moderator
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False dicho . . .
. . . oh, never mind.
