Ernest Schaal wrote:

> I can't believe that your solution to zero "innocents" being incarcerated or
executed is the abolishment of the legal system, letting criminal run
wild
unchecked.

Why is anything other than incarceration and the death penalty "the
abolishment of the legal sytem", and how would anything other than
incarceration and the death penalty be "letting criminal run wild
unchecked"?

> Anyway, it wouldn't work, because if the legal system evaporated, like you
wish, there would be an instant return to vengeance killings, where the

victim or the victim's family take the law in their own hands. The
result
would be many more innocent deaths as before, since people seeking
revenge
at their own hands are less likely to consider the due process of the
wrong
doer. So much for your "perfection."

How odd you do not fear or condemn this happening today when rapists
and criminals are allowed to walk, or for those victims and loved ones
who are forced to live without legally dispensed justice.

Assuming your vision ¿f people taking "justice" into their own hands
with NO legal options (which is false) is correct, would you harm a
neighbor who wronged you, if his family could then kill you?

>> A legal system with no incarceration or death penalty is 100% error
> free, as it applies to incarcerating or executing "innocents", which is
> the focus of the original article.

>> On the contrary, it would lead to more deaths of "innocents," not only by
those seeking revenge and not being careful about who they select as
the
criminal, but also by the criminals that feel free to kill because of
your
elimination of any deterrence.

Why do you believe incarceration and the death penalty to be the only
deterents?

>>> I hate to break it to you but the "Minority Report" is FICTION.

>> That is irrelevant.

> Wow! You can't tell the difference between the world of fiction and the real
world? Why am I not surprised?

A movie's being fiction is irrelevant to the fact that zero people
incarcerated or executed would mean zero percent of innocents being
incarcerated or executed.

>> To be 100% error free, as it applies to false
> imprisonment and mistaken execution, simply do away with those
> penalties. Let a man who knifed his own mother and sister to death (no
> one including the defense, denies it) be sent to a mental institution
> for "treatment", not prison for "punishment", as actually occurred on
> the date of Mike's original post. Let a woman who kills five of her own
> children also be "treated" for her own sake, not imprisoned for life as
> "punishment".

> That assumes that mental health sciences have progressed far more than they
presently have, that there are effective "treatments" for all crimes,
and
that unwilling confinement in a mental health institution is not
incarceration. None of that is true, so your idea really isn't ready
for the
real world.

If "none of that is true", then perhaps you should realize that I am
talking about actual cases in Hawaii and Texas, and things like this do
indeed occur in the US.