On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:03:21 Alois Mahdal wrote: > 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?
Yes - that it is OT and doesn't matter. Lisi -- 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/201405201705.44128.lisi.re...@gmail.com