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From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
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Subject: Re: Something for Eric
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:21:16 +0000 (UTC)
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etaka <etaka@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ernest Schaal2??4?? ????9:44 ? ?I?v?V???????\??
> ?j???[?X?O???[?v: fj.life.in-japan
> Ernest Schaal <esch...@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:

> I don't know what you are talking about. What is addressed by my
> previous post could be done right now, with today's technology, would
> be less of an infringement on individual's rights by the current
> system, and would cost billions less than now.
                                  ^^^^
You misspelled "more".

Unchecked crime has a cost as well.

> If you still don't get it, here is another 100% error free way to keep
> "innocents" out of prison and from being executed: abolish the death
> penalty and all forms of incarceration. Zero "innocents" would be
> incarcerated or executed. Unfortunately, M Fester appears to believe
> there is no such thing as perfection.

Yeah; that d*mn Heisenberg...

> > 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.

> 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.

Which is true.

A first, perhaps, for you on this thread.

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

> That is irrelevant. To be 100% error free, as it applies to false
> imprisonment and mistaken execution, simply do away with those
> penalties.

All well and good; now, who (other than you) promotes such silliness?

Mike