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Innocent until proven guilty is a standard for court proceedings. I am not a court, and I can even disagree with what a court decides. I can use my own judgment
by Fezzik 3y ago
Innocent until proven guilty is a standard for court proceedings. I am not a court, and I can even disagree with what a court decides. I can use my own judgment to draw conclusions and form opinions. For example, I can be confident that OJ is a murderer even though be was not convicted and was declared not guilty.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThis is a category error. Courts use a methodology that's the best one we have for discovering the truth. They don't always do it well (e.g. the OJ case) and you as an individual can use the same methodology to understand if something happened or not. It's the methodology, not the "being a court" that is key.
- mrguyorama 3y agoI as an individual do not have the powers of a court, and cannot do the things a court can do to ACTUALLY get close to "the truth", and must rely on what little information I am allowed to have.
- robertlagrant 3y agoAbsolutely. And if that information means you don't know, then you don't know.