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  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • The existance of cases where you can be 99.9% certain of guilt does not eliminate the existence of fringe cases. We know for a fact that people HAVE been executed despite being innocent. That's a risk you must accept if you support capital punishment.

  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • It's not a false dichotomy because it IS a dichotomy. It's a binary decision. You either legalise capital punishment and accept the risk of executing someone innocent or you don't legalise it. That is the choice.

  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • But this is a case of all or nothing. You either say the death penalty IS acceptable or it ISN'T. There is no in between. So highlighting a case with certainty doesn't address the issue of cases with less certainty.

  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • Even then, there is some hypothetical scenario that could at least mitigate guilt. For example, drink spiking with some kind of drug. I'm not saying that's what happened or I think that happened, my point is 100% certainty is an impossible bar.

  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • With respect, it kind of misses the point to highlight a case where guilt is basically certain. That's not my concern. My concern is the fringe cases with more ambiguity. I think that if there's even a 1% chance that an innocent person is executed, the risk isn't worth it.

  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • Sure, you've invented a fictional scenario that has never happened but appears quite certain. But even then there are external factors you can't account for such as duress.

  • Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed

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  • That's kinda what it comes down to for me though. Can you EVER be 100% sure? Even if you're 99.5% sure, odds are sooner or later you'll execute someone who was innocent. And in my opinion that one single lost innocent life means the practice is unjustifiable.

    I wonder how many people who disagree with me are pro life.

  • Pro-Trump ad uses Latin to target Latino voters

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  • Caecilius est in horto

  • Fuck that guy

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  • I've been inside his mother jokes on him

  • And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead

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  • Am I going mad or does she look a bit like Elon Musk?

  • How long have you worked here?

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  • How long have you been working here? Okay, good.

  • ‘Silent killer’: Russia boosts grinding Donbas advance with chemical warfare

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  • Nah it's a strangely worded title you're good

  • Four-day week: Workers' rights could be strengthened

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  • That's true but I found that nothing was really so urgent that it particularly mattered. If it did, there should be a 24 hour contingency anyway.

  • Four-day week: Workers' rights could be strengthened

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  • I guess the logic is, and I don't agree, that people will burn out through the day and spend the last couple hours phoning it in. That's not my experience of what actually happens but I think that's what some people think.

  • Four-day week: Workers' rights could be strengthened

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  • I worked a 4 day week for years (4*10 hours) with my old employer and it was fantastic. And I can say for sure that it didn't affect productivity for me or my team.

    I don't have kids but several of my colleagues did and it was a game changer for them. Especially the one whose partner worked for the same organisation, who could sync it up to save an absolute fortune on childcare (which is absurdly expensive here).

    Another colleague was a single mother and had the choice to choose which days she did each week, meaning she could do more with her child and make it to events and such. I have no doubt that that will have a long term positive impact on her son too.

    For me as a childless person I could use 2 days of annual leave to get 5 days off straight. £40 return ticket to Spain or Italy, a cheap hotel, and you can have a lovely little holiday any time of year.

    I had to leave for unrelated personal reasons but that shift pattern was glorious. No less work got done and everyone was happier. And it turns out - surprise surprise - when your staff are happy they produce better work.

    It's such a no brainer. But I won't get excited, because a certain generation seems to take any improvement for the younger generation as some kind of personal attack.

  • Donald Trump threatens to imprison Mark Zuckerburg for 'rest of his life' if 'he does anything illegal' over election

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  • Bit of an empty threat when he can just upload his consciousness into a different copy of his current model.

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  • Ur... Yeah?

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  • I think this tips it over the edge for me to switch to Firefox

  • Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot

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  • Well, the first A in ACAB stands for "all". Meaning the claim is not limited to America. It's a statement about policing as an institution in general, and so I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to contribute to the discussion even though I'm a foreigner.

    I don't think my view can be dismissed as anecdotal. A person basing a view off of one anecdote is anecdotal. A person who has worked in the field for years and has multiple degrees in the area isn't giving anecdotal evidence, they're giving expert and specialist insight. Furthermore, I was specifically asked about my individual experience.

    I defend the profession because it's my opinion that policing CAN be a force for good. I don't have direct experience with America so I won't comment on that. But your accusations that even "good" cops are complicit in corruption by turning a blind eye or defending it is simply not true across the board and massively unfair towards people who sacrifice a lot for a very difficult job for selfless reasons. The organisation I worked for had tens of thousands of officers and staff so I'm obviously not going to claim it had zero issues and zero corruption, but it tended to be isolated to specific teams with their own internal culture that outsiders are rarely even aware of. I know this based on both my own experience and my studies of police corruption as part of my first degree.

    I can honestly say with my hand on my heart that corruption was extremely rare in my professional experience. And when I saw something questionable (which was almost always down to incompetence rather than malice) I raised it and it was dealt with as appropriate.

    I haven't seen any comments qualifying their statement with "ACAB but only America" so I don't think I've "waded in" at all (even putting aside the fact that this is a public forum anyway). All means all, and I object to such a blanket statement. I want to reiterate that I'm really not just trying to bootlick. As I said before, I have no good will towards my precious employer (for totally separate reasons) and I do agree that there are issues in modern policing that need to be addressed.