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by crpatino 4891 days ago
You are willingly missing the point here. It is human nature to assume malicious intention, even if it is wrong. And if there's no a strong motive to provide a due process and investigate, malicious intention will will be assumed.

If a random male servant is found to have gained unauthorized access to the princess' chamber, torture comes first and beheading comes last. In-between questioning regarding his intentions and the degree of fulfillment is optional.

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You don't do that if you have video evidence of him entering, standing there for 15 seconds, and leaving.

There is a huge difference between catching someone in the act of breaking in, where it's reasonable to assume malicious intention, and noticing that someone entered and left, where you can see that they didn't do anything malicious.