What about Schrödinger's cat ?. Both guilty and not guilty at the same time ?
Padr On 20 May 2014 19:41, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/20/2014 12:05 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> 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 > > > + 1 !! Some one call in a moderator, PLEASE!!! We've gone from unmarked > helicopters to weather balloons and "The Lord is coming soon!" Someone just > say no! :/ Ric > > . > > > -- > My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: > > "There are two Great Sins in the world... > > ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. > > Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. > > https://linuxcounter.net/cert/44256.png > > X-oldie-warning: Toothless but still vicious > > > > > -- > 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/537ba1f0.8010...@gmail.com > -- 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/cae8iojtnyaegs79pdw7pm_0jcrzcbnm3xziqgq+3_tzem_f...@mail.gmail.com