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> His position was that any punishment of false claims was "putting off" victims from making real claims. Not true. He was replying to a post that said "False

by philh 9y ago

> His position was that any punishment of false claims was "putting off" victims from making real claims. Not true. He was replying to a post that said "False accusations should be punished with the same penalty as the accuser tried to put upon the innocent." He said "This has the side-effect..." The referent of "this" is clearly not "any punishment of false claims". And even if true, that is still not a policy proposal. I've given two alternative interpretations of the original comment. Here's a third: I have no particular policy proposal myself, but I wonder whether you've thought through the implications of yours? > downvotes Not that it matters, but right now my comments are all upvoted/neutral. > Your insistence on taking me at an extreme position I don't think we disagree on what your position is? We just disagree about whether or not you're correct. That is, I'm accusing you of accusing peteretep of making a specific policy proposal. You insist that your accusation is correct. So I don't think I'm taking you at a position that you'd call extreme; I think I'm taking you at a position that you actually openly hold. If you disagree then we're wildly talking past each other.

adekok 9y ago
> I don't think we disagree on what your position is? Yes, we do. Go back and read the history. I started off with a particular position, that you then misconstrued, and mis-characterized. > I think I'm taking you at a position that you actually openly hold No, you're not. You've managed to twist what I say, and my defense of my position, to an extreme position. My position is that people should be punished for breaking the law. And, that saying such punishment (whatever the form) somehow "puts off" innocent people from making claims is wrong.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > My position is that people should be punished for breaking the law. And, that saying such punishment (whatever the form) somehow "puts off" innocent people from making claims is wrong. So long as enforcement does not perfectly avoid false positives even in beginning prosecution (even if no false convictions occur) it increases the expected cost of a true report, and is a rational disincentive. It may be that the particular punishment regime minimizes this cost and/or has benefits that offset the cost, but it's implausible that any real punishment scheme could avoid it altogether.
- philh 9y ago
  So I think I've been pretty clear that I've been taking about what peteretep originally said versus what you think he originally said. E.g. "I'm accusing you of accusing peteretep of..." And I think you've been pretty explicitly talking about what he originally said. E.g. "His position was that..." But now you seem to be denying that you said anything about what he originally said, or you seem to think that what you said about what he said isn't relevant, or... I don't know. Your comment does not make sense to me. All I can think is that you seem to be mixing meta-levels. Anyway, I'm not exactly proud of how easily I get sucked into crap like this, so I'm going to try to tap out after this comment.

by philh 9y ago

adekok 9y ago

> I don't think we disagree on what your position is? Yes, we do. Go back and read the history. I started off with a particular position, that you then misconstrued, and mis-characterized. > I think I'm taking you at a position that you actually openly hold No, you're not. You've managed to twist what I say, and my defense of my position, to an extreme position. My position is that people should be punished for breaking the law. And, that saying such punishment (whatever the form) somehow "puts off" innocent people from making claims is wrong.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> My position is that people should be punished for breaking the law. And, that saying such punishment (whatever the form) somehow "puts off" innocent people from making claims is wrong. So long as enforcement does not perfectly avoid false positives even in beginning prosecution (even if no false convictions occur) it increases the expected cost of a true report, and is a rational disincentive. It may be that the particular punishment regime minimizes this cost and/or has benefits that offset the cost, but it's implausible that any real punishment scheme could avoid it altogether.
philh 9y ago
So I think I've been pretty clear that I've been taking about what peteretep originally said versus what you think he originally said. E.g. "I'm accusing you of accusing peteretep of..." And I think you've been pretty explicitly talking about what he originally said. E.g. "His position was that..." But now you seem to be denying that you said anything about what he originally said, or you seem to think that what you said about what he said isn't relevant, or... I don't know. Your comment does not make sense to me. All I can think is that you seem to be mixing meta-levels. Anyway, I'm not exactly proud of how easily I get sucked into crap like this, so I'm going to try to tap out after this comment.