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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
-Albert Camus
Perfect liberty is not the absence of government, it is created by the bare minimum government that is required to defend the rights of the weak.
What you want is License, or anarchy which always leads to tyranny.
Since you are obviously an anarchist this conversation is now done. Pigs can't sing (see my signature) and anarchists can't learn.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
-Albert Camus
Responses in bold.
The problems with C would suggest that, at the very least, the law be measured in its response. Executions, for example, should probably be illegal. Capital punishment does nothing to deter murder rates and the risk that you will murder an innocent person found guilty are convincing reasons to me to get rid of the issue altogether. Giving the state the power to create law and then kill you for disobeying that law seems dangerous anyway.
What fresh craziness are you talking about?
"To understand political power, we must consider the condition in which nature puts all men. It is a state of perfect freedom to do as they wish and dispose of themselves and their possessions as they think fit, within the bounds of the laws of nature. They need not ask permission or the consent of any other man. " -John Locke.
Talking about rights is just another way to talk about the natural liberty you have as a person in the state of nature.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
-Albert Camus
This sidesteps the issue.
I'm not claiming X minor aggression would prevent Y major aggression.
I'm asking whether X minor aggression would be justifiable IF it would prevent Y major aggression.
A. Every sentence (down to a $1 fine) implicitly risks the death of the person sentenced. Resistance to any law, however minor, will ultimately escalate into a situation where the resistor is killed. So, even if the death penalty were abolished (and I disagree that it ought to be, but that's another discussion), you would still be risking the lives of innocent people by convicting criminals.The problems with C would suggest that, at the very least, the law be measured in its response. Executions, for example, should probably be illegal. Capital punishment does nothing to deter murder rates and the risk that you will murder an innocent person found guilty are convincing reasons to me to get rid of the issue altogether. Giving the state the power to create law and then kill you for disobeying that law seems dangerous anyway.
B. Accidentally imprisoning/fining innocent people may be better than executing them, but it's still aggression.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
As stated, your question didn't make much sense, so I tried to answer what I thought you were trying to ask.
Here was your question:
...in what way would me volunteering to go to prison for a crime I didn't commit make anyone more safe?How many years, do you, Rev, want to serve for a crime that you did not commit, to protect the safety of the herd?
If it wouldn't, then my answer is obviously "zero years."
Just you? Just one person? No. A 1:1 trade-off (1 murder prevented per innocent person convicted) is pretty awful.
But if it's, say, 10,000:1 (i.e. 10,000 murders prevented per innocent person convicted), definitely.
And that's what we're talking about.
It's completely feasible to reduce the risk of wrongful conviction to extremely low levels (just not strictly to 0%).
That should be the aim, contra the lunatic goal of abolishing the judicial system altogether.
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