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The constitution should have a section stating "a person can only be convicted based on likelihood if it is 1:10 billion or rarer".
by Entlin 16y ago
The constitution should have a section stating "a person can only be convicted based on likelihood if it is 1:10 billion or rarer".
- shalmanese 16y agoAwesome, if I ever want to murder you, I'll get two guns, one with bullets and one with blanks, recruit a friend, double blind them so I don't know who has what and we'll both shoot you at the same time. Since it can never be ascribed to more than 50% certainty which of us shot you, we will both go free.
- handelaar 16y agoBecause of course there won't be a shred of forensic evidence pointing clearly to exactly one of you.
- Entlin 16y agoNo, you got me wrong. I meant "you should convict somebody based on hard proof. If you want to convict somebody based on likelihood, judges and juries - like all humans - have a big problem working with big numbers. To minimize hurtful bad decisions, and overcome this human flaw, we should set a fixed, very high probability."