in article 1139039080.442826.25940@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, etaka at
etaka@yahoo.com wrote on 2/4/06 4:44 PM:

> mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> 
>>> A legal system that convicts zero "innocents" is not a 100% error free
>>> legal system, which should be the envy of industry.
>> 
>> Actually, that would be an exemplary system.
> 
> If you're willing to imagine that much, why not a system which actually
> is perfect?
> 
> Then by that standard, here is a system which I predict would be 100%
> "error" free and can be implemented with today's technology, without
> further incursion on individual rights, and would save billions in
> taxpayer dollars: only allow convictions and punishments for crimes in
> the USA, if they occur in the presence of all the Supreme Court
> Justices, they all witness the crime taking place, and they and all
> other independent witnesses can agree on what happened, with the
> cooperation of the accused and their defense team, who would not be
> underpaid public defenders, but who would be paid $20 million dollars
> per case they win. As in "Minority Report" all those currently
> incarcerated must be immediately freed, because the current corrupt
> system which knowingly punishes innocents is obviously unacceptable.
> 
> Forget the greater amount of wrongdoing and victims which would be
> ignored, I am addressing further reduction of wrongful convictions,
> another issue the writer conveniently ignores along with the lives of
> an alleged 3400 innocents and their loved ones.

What is scary is that you would think that technology could be able to
produce a 100% error-free system. Such a system could never exist, merely
because technology is never 100% error-free, not even close.

The absurdity of thinking of a 100% error-free system is especially apparent
in systems dealing with the human condition, as knowledge of the human
condition is far from complete. Such a system may look great in your mind,
but in the real word one would have to deal with design flaws caused by
incomplete knowledge and human error, and by eventual mechanical and
electronic failures.

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