king Ale

Senior Member
Oct 28, 2004
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i understand but i disagree in taking single cases where it doesnt work to justify changing it, i believe we ought to compare and look at systems as a whole. for example, it could be that with this system, x number of innocent people will be executed wrongly, but with the other system >x number of innocent people will perish at the hands of killers(just bear with em here :p) then which should we adopt? bearing in mind concept of justice should extend to victims as well.
Well, that only has to do with the level of uncertainty with each system. Even if 1 innocent person is executed wrongly the system responsible for it is infinite times worse than a system which does not execute criminals no matter how big x is, because we can never know for sure if +x number of people would not have been killed if we had implemented death penalty in the system and unfortunately we have no way of knowing that either. The second system is preferable because its mistakes are not entirely irreversible and because we do not have (and we cannot possibly be aware of) a causal relationship between putting that policy into effect and a reduction in crime). That said, I'm in no way against death penalty as a wrong action (I don't agree with "you shouldn't take a life no matter what"), my only concern is about its incapability of being altered when it's proven to have taken an innocent's life.

this kind of reminded me of this :p

Will watch it at home :smile:

Speaking of Friedman, I was reading a relatively old article about maximization of profit and the author was saying "we will not consider altruistic firms because they are not rational" :p
 

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@swag I won't tell anybody if you hit dat tranny ass

I'm currently doing another wait for a skype job interview. This one for a job in Mexico. So far the lovely lady is 3 minutes late...
 

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I seriously need to stop impulsively clicking on clothing sites, just stupidly shopped for 500 euros in 30 mins in asos out of boredom :disagree: prolly half it I will forget to try it on when I get it.
 

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