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If you know with certainty that the person knows the location of the bomb then you also know where the bomb is located. It the same issue when the police and p
by belorn 5y ago
If you know with certainty that the person knows the location of the bomb then you also know where the bomb is located.
It the same issue when the police and prosecutor know all facts with certainty. At this point you don't need a court, a judge or a jury. In an artificial system where everything is know with perfect certainty you don't even need police and prosecutors, just a method to punish the guilty. A legal system is only needed in order to determine who is guilty and who isn't, and this is unnecessary if we know already who is guilty.
- ALittleLight 5y agoWould you torture a person if you were 90% sure they knew about the dirty bomb?
- belorn 5y agoHow would you know its 90% certainty? Even attempting to measuring certainty has an uncertainty factor in it. We know with some uncertainty the murder rate each year, and from this we have some measurable number that a person might be murdered. But we also know that murders tend to occur in non-random ways. At what murder rate should we start to arrest people at random? They are fun thoughts experiments, but as guides for real life they work about as good as extreme simulations which removes mass, gravity and air friction.
- nicholasnorris 5y agoYou know, a lot of times, people think they know things with absolute certainty, but then it turns out that they don't.