On Tue, 20 May 2014 09:45:00 -0400 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 5/20/14, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>> But this is precisely the problem with some of the > > >>> dogmatic idealists here - by this logic, we should > > >>> abolish criminal justice entirely, as it's virtually > > >>> impossible to guarantee that "no one blameless" will > > >>> ever be "persecuted": > > >>> http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm [...]
> If you take the trouble to follow the link I posted above, > you'll see an entire paper - one of the most brilliantly > erudite and funniest things I have ever read - devoted to > that question. I am confused about the meaning of n. He first states that n = (P - 10) / 10; # P being population of Sodom, so n has no particular known weight or meaning: Is it n = 1 if we save 1 innocent for 1 guilty? Is it n = 10 if we save 1 innocent for 10 guilty? That would almost make sense except that it would silently imply P = 110. Then, in the rest of the article, he refers to n but, failing to explain the meaning of it, I don't see any point of reading it. Did I miss something? Thanks, aL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140520170321.75d0d...@hugo.daonet.home
