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Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex

I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 17 Nov 2014

      Hey @slatestarcodex changed your mind? RT @bob_owens: BREAKING: #Ferguson Grand jury will not indict Darrin Stephens.pic.twitter.com/19oaEpciD6

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    2. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 17 Nov 2014
      Replying to @ProtestManager

      @ProtestManager @bob_owens Changed my mind about what?

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    3. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 17 Nov 2014
      Replying to @slatestarcodex

      .@slatestarcodex @bob_owens About "Ferguson [being] case of police misconduct involving race"?

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    4. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 18 Nov 2014
      Replying to @ProtestManager

      @ProtestManager Tried to be noncommittal there. Any time somebody gets shot is a subpar outcome, but not accusing cop of personal failure

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    5. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 18 Nov 2014
      Replying to @slatestarcodex

      .@slatestarcodex Any time someone gets unjustifiably shot that's a sub-par outcome. When a rapist for example gets shot? That's a good thing

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    6. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 18 Nov 2014
      Replying to @ProtestManager

      @ProtestManager If indeed some people are better off dead, I prefer to let courts decide that through usual capital punishment process.

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    7. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 18 Nov 2014
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      .@slatestarcodex The almost never happens capital punishment process? Esp. when the "innocence Project" gets involved http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/duped-by-innocence-project-milwaukee-man-now-free-b99386015z1-281852841.html …

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    8. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 18 Nov 2014
      Replying to @ProtestManager

      @ProtestManager So are you proposing police should be able to shoot anyone they think is a criminal?

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    9. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 18 Nov 2014
      Replying to @slatestarcodex

      No @slatestarcodex I'm proposing that victims should be able to shoot the criminals attacking them. And that's more likely to get the guilty

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      Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 18 Nov 2014
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      @ProtestManager Victims should use deadly force to defend selves as last resort. Still best if doesn't have to happen, normal process

      9:05 PM - 18 Nov 2014
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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 18 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex Isaac Asimov: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent Us: That's because the competent use it as soon as it's proper

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 18 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex Or: what's best is if no one ever tries to rob, rape, or murder anyone. Second best is they're stopped, however necessary

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          Thanks for discussion @slatestarcodex it's led me to some interesting thoughts. Here they are:

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        2. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex 1: The purpose of a justice system is to punish wrongdoers, and protect the innocent

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        3. Noam Samuel‏ @noamsml 31 Dec 2014
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          @ProtestManager @slatestarcodex The purpose of a justice system is to provide disincentives for wrongdoing & isolate criminals from society

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        4. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 31 Dec 2014
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          .@noamsml @slatestarcodex “disincentives” == punishment, “wrongdoing” -> done by guilty, stop it to protect the innocent

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex 2: The purpose of a political system is to enable people with different views to live together in peace

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex Trials R 1 way to make sure the guilty get punished. But today they're far more focused on formalism than on actual justice

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex I say that because, for example, a system that was focused on justice wouldn't have the current exclusionary rules

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex A political system, OTOH, lives and dies by formalism. The people do not agree on what is right, so need rules for who wins

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex For us in the Red Tribe, Gruber and #ObamaCare is the moral equivalent of a prosecutor / cop who hides exculpatory (cont)

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex evidence or suborns perjury in order order to "get" someone he "knows" is "dirty". IOW, inexcusable and evil.

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex You don't get to lie, cheat, and / or steal in order to win in politics, doing so destroys the purpose of the system

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex OTOH, in the criminal justice system a victim who shoots his attacker is prefect justice. The guilty is punished (cont)

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          .@slatestarcodex the innocent is saved.

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          The Blue Tribe OTOH @slatestarcodex seems to see things the opposite way. In criminal justice you want formalism over everything else

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
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          In politics OTOH @slatestarcodex the Blue Tribe seems to believe they have a monopoly on morality, thus anything to win is acceptable.

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        1. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
          Replying to @slatestarcodex

          Then @slatestarcodex there's the whole "Living Constitution" = "Con means whatever 5 left wing judges say it means" dodge, vs written one

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        2. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 19 Nov 2014
          Replying to @slatestarcodex

          That, at least @slatestarcodex is how it appears from over here. How do you see it?

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        3. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 22 Nov 2014
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          @ProtestManager Reply too long for Twitter, posted at http://pastebin.com/JG4aFUWz 

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        4. Protest Manager‏ @ProtestManager 1 Dec 2014
          Replying to @slatestarcodex

          I’ve obviously not communicated my thoughts clearly enough @slatestarcodex so, let me try again. 1: I do not think police, prosecutors cont

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