03-19-2009, 01:30 PM
Heiho,
for the records:
I'm absolutely against death penalty. And no device, however elaborated, will wash off the blood from the executioner's hands, nor from the hands of those judging someone to death.
Because a technical device will always need an interpretation of its results, and this interpretation will alwys be preoccupied. G.K.Chesterton published a short story of his Father Brown series, 'the Mistake of the Machine', about a hundred years ago describing a lie detector, and everything to say against lie detectors will also apply to every other technical device.
Such a device is a camouflage similar to fake munition given out to shooting executioners, where only a few get the real ammo, and no-one knows who got which. This should put the gunners to ease, but the moral guilt still stays, just no-one wants to take the blame.
for the records:
I'm absolutely against death penalty. And no device, however elaborated, will wash off the blood from the executioner's hands, nor from the hands of those judging someone to death.
Because a technical device will always need an interpretation of its results, and this interpretation will alwys be preoccupied. G.K.Chesterton published a short story of his Father Brown series, 'the Mistake of the Machine', about a hundred years ago describing a lie detector, and everything to say against lie detectors will also apply to every other technical device.
Such a device is a camouflage similar to fake munition given out to shooting executioners, where only a few get the real ammo, and no-one knows who got which. This should put the gunners to ease, but the moral guilt still stays, just no-one wants to take the blame.