[FDE] on the proposed demise of the bill of rights

[dan at geer.org]

Shannon Roddy writes:
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 | Yep.  I'd rather 5 guilty go free than 1 innocent be put in
 | prison.  Besides, those who depend on the gov't to protect
 | them have no protection at all.  Someone else already
 | mentioned Heston, but...   You can pry them (my rights, guns,
 | ammo, baseball bat, etc.) from my cold dead hands.

Every NRA Life Member is with you, shall we say.

However, you raise a wonderful question: One that
a decision analyst calls "the point of indifference"
which for the purpose of this increasingly long-winded
discussion might be

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What numeric value converts this sentence:

 I would rather ____ guilty go free
 than 1 innocent be imprisoned. 

to this sentence

 I cannot countenance ____ guilty going free
 just to protect 1 innocent.
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The dividing line number = the point of indifference.

This is not made up; we see this every day when
we debate the value of a human life as in "How
much is a human life worth?" amongst many other
such questions.  We are not all that rational
about it, either.

Pedantically, see slides 248-258, perhaps even
232-258, at [1].  I'm not advertising; I'm just
acknowledging that I am on-record.

--dan

[1]
http://geer.tinho.net/measuringsecurity.tutorialv2.pdf