Any punishment always has some false positive rate; by that reasoning, you could never punish anyone for anything
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1. The worse the punishment, the worse the injustice of applying it wrongly.
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2. People in jail can be exonerated. Dead people can't.
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"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation …
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THANK YOU not just for the essay, but for donating so much to Prop 62!!!
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Benjamin Franklin said "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer"
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Agree w/62, but this is bad logic. Would a child say it's OK to jail innocents? Why not also ban jails?
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wrongly jailed people can be released...
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