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Besides the ethics of it, there's a productivity aspect. It's like when the British paid for dead snakes in India and people bred snakes. This means there's no
by travisjungroth 3y ago
Besides the ethics of it, there's a productivity aspect. It's like when the British paid for dead snakes in India and people bred snakes. This means there's no reduction in wild snakes.
If three big dudes encircle a guy in an alleyway and say "you want to buy this stolen car stereo for $40, right?" and then you bust the guy for pulling out his wallet, you have done nothing to reduce the demand for stolen property in your city. You caught the demand, but you also created it. (The feature is a built-in amplifier, but the benefit is not getting your ass beat.)
- lazide 3y agoAgreed - the ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ doctrine is very similar IMO. Making it possible to use evidence collected illegally means they’ll just do that all the time. So make it useless, so they’ll actually follow the rules.
- tptacek 3y agoThe exclusionary rule of evidence (of "poisonous tree" fame) is another great example of a legal principle that isn't really an ethical principle, and is anything but universal: most of Europe doesn't have it.