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Me too, which is why I'm a bit surprised at all the negativity towards this article. Sure, it's sort of 'defending' trial by ordeal, but it's not new that this
by Bartweiss 9y ago
Me too, which is why I'm a bit surprised at all the negativity towards this article.
Sure, it's sort of 'defending' trial by ordeal, but it's not new that this practice was real and terrible. What's novel to me is that it wasn't just a way to automatically convict every suspect; a 2/3 acquittal rate is vastly higher than I would have guessed.
- squeaky-clean 9y agoYeah, I really enjoyed this article too! Trial by ordeal has always confused me for that reason, obviously 100% of people holding burning iron will get burnt hands, wouldn't they find it fishy if 100% of the people undergoing trial end up guilty? And this gives a really sensible explanation for that.