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I’ve recently had the privilege of watching “12 angry men” for the first time. It’s a masterpiece in showing how a legal “sure thing” can be so wrong. Legal ca
by seer 5y ago
I’ve recently had the privilege of watching “12 angry men” for the first time. It’s a masterpiece in showing how a legal “sure thing” can be so wrong.
Legal cases are often constructed with testimony, unreliable evidence, and chance. Its an effort to increase likelihood of certainty using very unreliable data. And human intuition really sucks when it comes to probability calculations.
I think that film as no other really captures how wrong we can be, even if we “feel” certain about it. It might sound like a tangent but I think it narrates how errors like this are possible more eloquently than I would ever be able to do on my own.
- beerandt 5y agoI recently watched the films "Hannibal," and "Silence of the Lambs," which convinced me that killers who aren't executed will continue to orchestrate murders from inside prison by psychologically manipulating people. I think those films really capture what happens when we only imprison killers, even if we feel certain that there would be no public harm from handing down a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
- swiley 5y agoSure but lets not add the state to the list of things that can end people's lives.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoI think every country has baffling and shocking miscarriages of justice were someone was thrown in jail for something they didn't do. But you can release someone, even after 20 years. "Oops it wasn't you who raped and strangled that child sorry". The death penalty is final however.