Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by maxerickson on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:48PM
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The rational thing might be to let the people in the room die.
It depends on how many outwardly hidden death rooms there really are and how often the existence of these rooms is revealed by anonymous phone calls. You don't need much of a ratio there for urgent action against false calls to create more harm than the hidden death rooms.
And it doesn't have to be a binary choice; upon receiving notification of a hidden death room, the police could choose to investigate cautiously rather than escalating to extreme force. This will likely still have the effect of reducing the number of hidden death rooms without much risk of shooting innocent people in a raid.
It depends on how many outwardly hidden death rooms there really are and how often the existence of these rooms is revealed by anonymous phone calls. You don't need much of a ratio there for urgent action against false calls to create more harm than the hidden death rooms.
And it doesn't have to be a binary choice; upon receiving notification of a hidden death room, the police could choose to investigate cautiously rather than escalating to extreme force. This will likely still have the effect of reducing the number of hidden death rooms without much risk of shooting innocent people in a raid.