Hey-
Just recently I was watching an old episode of one of my favorite t.v.
shows --Law and Order. Now somewhere in the episode the procecutor
character quotes a well known legal maxim that I've heard many times
before, "If the system should err, it should err on the side of individual
rights." Thus our nation's legal presumption of innocence which is IMHO a
righteous policy.
However, I don't think the MoQ would agree with our forefathers descision
to always give individuals the benefit of the doubt.
An entire society is at a higher level of evolution than a single person.
The MoQ tells us that society must control biology in order to maintain its
own existence. Would I be wrong in thinking that the MoQ would endorse a
"guilty until proven innocent" presumption over an "innocent until proven
guilty" presumption?
it's all Good,
Rick
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