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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1534453" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Empathy</p><p></p><p>Here is some food for thought which might help restore what is becoming an endangered species.</p><p></p><p>What level of certainty about an accused guilt should drive anyone to crucify another? The standard to convict a defendant in criminal court is often understood as requiring anywhere from 95 to 100 percent certainty of the defendant's guilt. In civil court, the "preponderance of the evidence" standard requires 51 percent certainty. Would you crucify someone if you think there were a 25 percent chance they've done bad things? A 10 percent chance? A 5 percent chance? A 1 percent chance?</p><p></p><p>And what about the nature of those bad things? What about whether someone, against whom no further charges are known to have been raised, should be crucified because he did something objectionable—even horrifying—as a boy on the cusp of adulthood? </p><p></p><p>The conservative columnist Dennis Prager argues he shouldn't: "If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red." Wouldn't you agree since we are only human and far from perfect, this seems to be a reasonable accounting of someone's morality? At the end of the day there must an accounting of our value to society doesn't there?</p><p></p><p>This thread is meant to be nonpolitical and is not intended to be left wing or right wing because no matter what wing you identify we are all attached to the same bird and the bird is what's important. Just offering some food for thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1534453, member: 4362"] Empathy Here is some food for thought which might help restore what is becoming an endangered species. What level of certainty about an accused guilt should drive anyone to crucify another? The standard to convict a defendant in criminal court is often understood as requiring anywhere from 95 to 100 percent certainty of the defendant’s guilt. In civil court, the “preponderance of the evidence” standard requires 51 percent certainty. Would you crucify someone if you think there were a 25 percent chance they’ve done bad things? A 10 percent chance? A 5 percent chance? A 1 percent chance? And what about the nature of those bad things? What about whether someone, against whom no further charges are known to have been raised, should be crucified because he did something objectionable—even horrifying—as a boy on the cusp of adulthood? The conservative columnist Dennis Prager argues he shouldn’t: “If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red." Wouldn't you agree since we are only human and far from perfect, this seems to be a reasonable accounting of someone's morality? At the end of the day there must an accounting of our value to society doesn't there? This thread is meant to be nonpolitical and is not intended to be left wing or right wing because no matter what wing you identify we are all attached to the same bird and the bird is what's important. Just offering some food for thought. [/QUOTE]
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