On 27 Jul 2002 at 13:04, David McFadzean wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
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> > The death of the guilty is certainly to be preferred to the death of
> further
> > innocents, or even the death of others guilty of other, perhaps much
> > lesser, crimes whom the murderer might subsequently kill in prison.
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> Is the wrongful death of an innocent justified if two or more are saved?
>
In cold utilitarian equations, yes. But we're not talking about the death
of an innocent, here; in the case of DNA evidence; it's statistically a
minutiae away from absolutely conclusive.
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