alt Hacker NewsBad people doing bad things doesn't invalidate good people doing the right thing. If we kill innocent people that is bad, and we should require an incredibly high bar for this type of thing.
It becomes a slipper slope argument - well if we allow people to be jailed then inncocent people will be jailed and that's due to the law of large numbers, and there's no way to reverse our incredibly horrible prison system as it stands.
So now its my job to build our restorative justice system or... take out a few more nazis.
Theres's no slippery slope. You can reverse sending the wrong person to jail. You release them.
> If we kill innocent people that is bad, and we should require an incredibly high bar for this type of thing.
Yeah, the bar should be "only when humans reach infallibility" and then we won't kill any innocent people.
Why would you want a justice system that kills innocent people (and spends more money in the process) when it is entirely avoidable?