| > If we presume guilt until innocence - why even bother with a criminal justice system? Someone believing he is guilty outside a court of law does not cause him to get thrown in prison. That is why we bother with a criminal justice system, with specific standards. > it's an abominable thing to do It's the human thing to do. We all do it. You too, no matter how much you may want to pretend you don't judge. It is a fine thing to try to withhold judgement, but we are not even capable of fully preventing it. In fact, you are expressing a great deal of judgement about people on the basis of lack of evidence in this very thread: > It makes you no better than a lynch mob. If you seriously don't see the difference between holding a belief, without making any statement about how certain you are that it is correct, and going out with the intent of subjecting someone to violence on the basis of that belief, then you seriously need to think through your thought process. |