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If you want literally 0% innocent people punished, you have to let all guilty people go, i.e. don't attempt justice.
by andrewflnr 4y ago
If you want literally 0% innocent people punished, you have to let all guilty people go, i.e. don't attempt justice.
- eru 4y agoWell, we only have about 8 billion people on the planet. If you can drive down the rate of innocent people punished below, say, 1 in a trillion, that's probably close enough to zero in practice?
- andrewflnr 4y agoBut we won't get there, not even close, maybe not even in a panopticon dystopia. Anyway, your baseline should be total accusations (not prosecutions, you're already a fair bit into the pipeline at that point and imposing significant costs), which is significantly higher than total people.