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This. Can you imagine sending someone to jail or leaving someone to walk free just because you were too lazy to actually do your job?? I'm not for heavy regula

This. Can you imagine sending someone to jail or leaving someone to walk free just because you were too lazy to actually do your job?? I'm not for heavy regulations myself but for Medicine, Law, Civil engineering we can make a case on why we need regulations in these areas.

sidewndr46 3y ago
Well, that does exist: https://reillytop10.com/previous-lists/2018-list/sentencing-software/ https://reillytop10.com/previous-lists/2018-list/sentencing-...
engineer_22 3y ago
Agreed, and happily they're already regulated. Practitioners of engineering and medicine can be criminally liable for negligence. The government also regulates the profession by granting licenses and preventing people from practicing in these fields without a license. Law, well, it's self regulated...
Someone1234 3y ago
> Can you imagine sending someone to jail or leaving someone to walk free just because you were too lazy to actually do your job?? This was a civil lawsuit wherein a passenger got injured on an aircraft. I'm not trying to lessen what occurred, just trying to accurately characterize the risks associated with this professional misconduct.
tikhonj 3y ago
From what I've read about the US justice system, you don't have to imagine very hard—it just happens through institutionally supported channels like pushing people to plea bargains and underfunding public defenders' offices.
giantg2 3y ago
"Can you imagine sending someone to jail or leaving someone to walk free just because you were too lazy to actually do your job?" Interesting question. Most people have a lot of bias that wouldn't allow themself to see that the person they locked up might be innocent. You'd have almost nobody working as a judge, lawyer, cop, etc if the cognitive dissonance were allowed to creep in. In the vast majority of cases they only leveled justice against the person because they thought it was right.

sidewndr46 3y ago

Well, that does exist: https://reillytop10.com/previous-lists/2018-list/sentencing-software/ https://reillytop10.com/previous-lists/2018-list/sentencing-...

engineer_22 3y ago

Agreed, and happily they're already regulated. Practitioners of engineering and medicine can be criminally liable for negligence. The government also regulates the profession by granting licenses and preventing people from practicing in these fields without a license. Law, well, it's self regulated...

Someone1234 3y ago

> Can you imagine sending someone to jail or leaving someone to walk free just because you were too lazy to actually do your job?? This was a civil lawsuit wherein a passenger got injured on an aircraft. I'm not trying to lessen what occurred, just trying to accurately characterize the risks associated with this professional misconduct.

tikhonj 3y ago

From what I've read about the US justice system, you don't have to imagine very hard—it just happens through institutionally supported channels like pushing people to plea bargains and underfunding public defenders' offices.

giantg2 3y ago

"Can you imagine sending someone to jail or leaving someone to walk free just because you were too lazy to actually do your job?" Interesting question. Most people have a lot of bias that wouldn't allow themself to see that the person they locked up might be innocent. You'd have almost nobody working as a judge, lawyer, cop, etc if the cognitive dissonance were allowed to creep in. In the vast majority of cases they only leveled justice against the person because they thought it was right.