Board index › Topical Discussion › Politics, Philosophy, and Religion

What is preferable

Page 1 of 1 [ 10 posts ] 

Previous topic | Next topic

Jacoby
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 Dec 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 14,284
Location: Arizona

25 Mar 2012, 6:56 pm

To wrongly convict someone of a crime and put them behind bars due to strict laws or for a guilty person to go free due to lax laws?



OliveOilMom
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 11 Nov 2011
Age: 62
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,447
Location: About 50 miles past the middle of nowhere

25 Mar 2012, 7:37 pm

Depends on what the crime is and if they may be a sufficient danger to society.


_________________
I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
My forum is still there and everyone is welcome to come join as well. There is a private women only subforum there if anyone is interested. Also, there is no CAPTCHA. ;-)

The link to the forum is http://www.rightplanet.proboards.com


AceOfSpades
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,754
Location: Sean Penn, Cambodia

25 Mar 2012, 7:41 pm

I'd take a guilty person going free over an innocent getting convicted any day. Overly strict laws set a dangerous precedent for the Government.



Joker
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 19 Mar 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,593
Location: North Carolina The Tar Heel State :)

25 Mar 2012, 8:24 pm

IDK dont really care :lol:



Ria1989
Deinonychus
Deinonychus

User avatar

Joined: 18 Feb 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 341

25 Mar 2012, 9:26 pm

I don't know. There's no justice in an innocent person spending part of their life in jail, whereas letting a guilty person go free might be okay. The guilty person might later get murdered by someone or the person might get struck by lightening, for example.

I feel like there's nothing good about an innocent person going to jail, unless of course he escapes unforeseen death, which no one can predict.


_________________
Ummmm....


ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 89
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

25 Mar 2012, 9:38 pm

Ria1989 wrote:
I don't know. There's no justice in an innocent person spending part of their life in jail, whereas letting a guilty person go free might be okay. The guilty person might later get murdered by someone or the person might get struck by lightening, for example.



Or the guilty party who was neither convicted nor punished might die quietly in his own bed of natural causes.

Which is why people have invented Heaven and Hell. Heaven for the righteous who suffer unjustly and Hell for the unrighteous who otherwise prosper and die in peace.

ruveyn



naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 71
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

27 Mar 2012, 6:58 pm

Better to have an OJ or a Tot Mom go free than have you or me sent to the chair (or even spend years in prison) for a capital crime we didnt commit.


Though Im not sure what laxness vs stictness of the laws would make a difference.

Its how much our rights are protected once we are accused- whether the law is strict or not.



Oldout
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 9 Feb 2012
Age: 76
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,539
Location: Reading, PA

29 Mar 2012, 9:39 am

You've raised a very good question. But let me expand it to say -- which is worse an unreported crime or a reported crime which is not investigated?



ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 89
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

29 Mar 2012, 10:19 am

Oldout wrote:
You've raised a very good question. But let me expand it to say -- which is worse an unreported crime or a reported crime which is not investigated?


A reported crime left unprocessed is a corruption of the police process.

ruveyn



Oldout
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 9 Feb 2012
Age: 76
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,539
Location: Reading, PA

30 Mar 2012, 11:31 am

A reported crime left unprocessed is a corruption of the police process.

ruveyn[/quote]

Thank you, then to your surprise I will inform you that The Federal Reserve, The OCC and The Justice Departnment are corrupt. None of them will enforce the law that says a bank must "honor" a check written on their bank's paper. In addition, the Obama will not even answer my correspondence on this matter. And I grew up being blasted as to how corrupt the Russian government was.