I'm not the only one getting increasingly worried about the:
-increasing rhetoric about death for sex offenders
-the rise of apps like sneaky links that "show the locations of offenders near you"
-the likelyhood that this is a preclude to coordinated and sustained mob violence
Right? Like I'm not the only one getting really uneasy about all of this?
And the worst part is that yes, sex offenders and pedophiles are heinous criminals, but something feels off to me.
I hope I am just being overly paranoid, but what happens when the data sets are replaced with a different group of people after the mob is already primed for violence.
What happens when a data set is "accidentally wrong" and people in the wrong neighborhood are terrorized for no reason?
@Hobyrim See, that's why stringent legal processes are ESPECIALLY essential for severe & irreversible punishments like the death penalty.
If you require a high enough standard of evidence to preclude any possibility of a mistake for such punishments, the ethical problem with them goes away.
Sure, that means only a very tiny minority of cases that might otherwise qualify for severe/irreversible punishment will see it meted out, but those few cases will still stand out as stark examples.