Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by startling on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:57PM
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Maybe it helps to reword "this kind of evidence is unethical" as "taking action on this kind of evidence alone causes social harm"?
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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by contravariant on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:38PM
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Perhaps, but building a list of all kinds of evidence insufficient to act on would take a lot of effort, and I fear it won't take away the underlying problems.
Telling someone to ignore the fact that group X is Y% more likely to commit a crime is very unlikely to work (since purposely ignoring something is somewhat contradictory). You'd likely get better results by asking someone why they did something despite lacking sufficient evidence.