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Re:Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad ... by cheald on Saturday July 27, 2013 @01:16AM (#6111963)
> If cops have to break the law to save someone then the law is at fault.

Yes, this is precisely the point. Zero-tolerance assumes that the law cannot be at fault, when we know full well that it can be. Ergo, until the law is perfect and unerring, zero tolerance is flawed.

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Re:Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad ... by spiritplumber on Saturday July 27, 2013 @01:45AM (#6112000)
Doesn't the notion that [any system less complex than the cosmos] is never wrong violate one of the incompleteness theorems anyway?
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Re:Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad ... by tomjen3 on Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:27AM (#6112338)
No, it just means that there are things that are true but cannot be proven given the axioms of the system if the system is powerful enough to express Peano arithmetic. It has very little to do with laws, as they don't really prove anything (that is for the jury/judge to do).
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