Re:Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens
by davorb on Sunday February 01, 2015 @12:24PM
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The problem is more that some of the politicians should go to jail, but don't.
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Re:Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens
by jfoutz on Sunday February 01, 2015 @01:22PM
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Hmm. Perhaps the line can be drawn a little closer to the truth, but i'm happy with the bias toward false negatives over false positives.
In death penalty cases, when you'd expect the justice system to work its absolute best, 5% were overturned when DNA evidence became reliable. 1 in 20 on they way to die because of false positives.
Re:Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens
by TeMPOraL on Sunday February 01, 2015 @03:57PM
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Cynic in me would say that if we jailed all top-tier politicians, we'd have less than 5% false positives. I honestly don't believe that in an established democracy (as opposed to freshly formed) you can get to the level of a minister or above without doing something illegal or immoral. The dynamics of the system clearly shows that.