Shannon Roddy writes: -+------------------- | Yep. I'd rather 5 guilty go free than 1 innocent be put in | prison. Besides, those who depend on the gov't to protect | them have no protection at all. Someone else already | mentioned Heston, but... You can pry them (my rights, guns, | ammo, baseball bat, etc.) from my cold dead hands.
Every NRA Life Member is with you, shall we say. However, you raise a wonderful question: One that a decision analyst calls "the point of indifference" which for the purpose of this increasingly long-winded discussion might be ============================================= What numeric value converts this sentence: I would rather ____ guilty go free than 1 innocent be imprisoned. to this sentence I cannot countenance ____ guilty going free just to protect 1 innocent. ============================================= The dividing line number = the point of indifference. This is not made up; we see this every day when we debate the value of a human life as in "How much is a human life worth?" amongst many other such questions. We are not all that rational about it, either. Pedantically, see slides 248-258, perhaps even 232-258, at [1]. I'm not advertising; I'm just acknowledging that I am on-record. --dan [1] http://geer.tinho.net/measuringsecurity.tutorialv2.pdf _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
