[FRIAM] corruption and impartiality

[uǝlƃ ☤>$]

But your use of "should" implies aligned values. I suppose it's reasonable to criticize my artificial distinction between engineering and natural science. Victor Orbán (and apparently many of our Republican friends who fawn over him) is engineering his piece of society according to different values than we are (or you might feel we *should* be) engineering our piece. So, maybe I should have used a hedge prefix like "meta-engineering" or somesuch. But the issue remains that we do NOT share values.

Completely reasonable people can make the case for the death penalty, which may not *seem* like violent confrontation. But tight control of "violence" is different from non-violent. Other, seemingly reasonable people, can make the case for spanking their children, or industrial meat, ... or paying $50 to see 2 people beat the snot out of each other. Many of us (less reasonable) people feel that a punishment should fit the crime, eye for an eye and whatnot, leading to things like chopped off hands or violent indoctrination in a prison for years as a result of selling some arbitrary recreational chemical.

The law *should* push some of us into violent confrontation, apparently [⺈]. Which people and which types of confrontation depends wholly on the values we choose as our engineered requirements.


[⺈] Hume's guillotine is either just plain false or limited to ideal deduction. I can't remember if I posted my arguments against it, here, or not.


On 11/23/21 9:09 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> I hope I only said that the law should be designed not to push us into violent confrontation.  Delete that paragraph when you send it to the Times. 

> On 11/23/21 8:46 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
>> The question raised by the IDEA report is one of engineering vs natural science and shared values. So, this is our justice system, where evil-doers like Rittenhouse and Reinoehl simply reap the persnickety, artifactual, consequences of the way it's semi-structured. Do we let it stand? Or do we reform it? What shared value(s) would we target as engineers? And if we choose reformation, is it a nudge approach? Overhaul approach? Etc.

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