Ben Franklin: > That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally app

Ben Franklin: > That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. This builds upon an idea espoused by Voltaire, I believe. Western philosophical/political systems have long held the idea that false negatives are a worthwhile cost to avoid any false positives.