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If you don't consider the presumption of innocence a core human value, what do you?
by brucephillips 9y ago
If you don't consider the presumption of innocence a core human value, what do you?
- gbog 9y agoYou can't shorten it like that. It's a complex litigation system were we westerners, when applying our own interpretation grid, see a presumption of guilt. For the core human values, a good example is the case of a little girl running dangerously near a well, any human except some psychopath will jump on their feet and save her. Here we all share something that can be qualified as universal.
- brucephillips 9y ago> when applying our own interpretation grid, see a presumption of guilt. You're arguing that "presumption of guilt" is somehow contextually relative. It's not. If 99% of "trials" result in a conviction, there's an unequivocal presumption of guilt.