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The options are you assume people are innocent unless proven guilty, or guilty unless proven innocent. Going through life treating everyone as guilty until pro
by qualeed 1y ago
The options are you assume people are innocent unless proven guilty, or guilty unless proven innocent.
Going through life treating everyone as guilty until proven innocent sounds like an exhausting and negative way to treat everyone, and harms more people overall.
- burkaman 1y agoThose are not the only options, those are the two extremes of a spectrum. Most people fall in the middle with something like "assume people are innocent unless you see convincing evidence of guilt". This is a reasonable philosophy unless you have power over someone, in which case proof is much more important.
- qualeed 1y ago>"assume people are innocent unless you see convincing evidence of guilt". So... base assumption is innocent. That's all I was saying.
- eru 1y agoNo. Base assumption doesn't have to be binary. Just get some background rates, and assume that people are guilty with eg 0.1% probability. (Just a made a up number. Real priors should depend on a lot more context.)
- burkaman 1y agoOk, I think you may have misinterpreted some other comments then. The argument was that "proven" in "innocent until proven guilt" is too high a bar for a low-stakes internet discussion.