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Re:Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and prac... by SilasX on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:31PM (#15468160)
That doesn't work for the reason above: I don't want my grandma imprisoned, but zero imprisonment is also impractical. [1]

"A society is judged by how it treats its weakest", "would I want $GOOD_PERSON to fall victim to this" -- those sound nice, but don't translate into a practical metric for appropriately navigating real moral dilemmas.

[1] I know the lectures about the evils of mass incarceration; those don't prove that no one should be imprisoned.

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Re:Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and prac... by gervase on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:00PM (#15468391)
Perhaps an extension, then: "Would I want this to happen to $LOVED_ONE, if they were convicted of $HEINOUS_CRIME?"

This may permit consideration of the relative social value of the punishment, alloyed with the emotional bias provided by the context.

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