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[–] 1 point 1 month ago* (14 children)

Sure, there are many arguments for many bad ideas, but the statistics don't lie. A hostile police force, an adversarial legal system, only leads to miscarriages of justice.

It's just an extension of capitalism; if you can get away with it your actions are legitimized regardless of what you did. It's the paradigm of the End justifying the means.

So pur system is designed for miscarriage of justice and so as such cannot be said to result in miscarriages of justice because we do not care about justice in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (13 children)

    You are not arguing in a way that will convince me. Please leave me alone if that's the only way you know how.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (12 children)

    It's literally an online discussion forum. Why are you here then?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (11 children)

    To hear from people who write convincingly

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (10 children)

    Ah yes, to hear your own opinion through someone else's mouth. Echochamber ventriloquism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (9 children)

    No. What I expect is that if someone is coming at something from a wildly different perspective than the status quo - for example, "judges shouldn't be allowed to prevent juries from hearing anything from a defendant," then they be able to present literally any argument for that. I've had dozens of replies in this thread that either could not do that or could not articulate why that was not their perspective.

    Instead, they want to take it as read that the status quo is wrong. The status quo could very well be wrong but everyone who has come to that conclusion through actual reason rather than unexamined emotion can say why. Of the dozens of replies I think only one person demonstrated that ability.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (8 children)

    Don't confuse your capacity to understand with other people's capacity to explain.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    No individual really has any way to discern the two, from their own perspective. Except in retrospect, anyway. One can only guess, based on an assessment of one's own general intelligence and linguistic facility. Which obviously is not something you, an internet stranger, have any access to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    It's actually pretty simple, if you're superior to everyone else you're living in a delusion created to couch your own inferiority complex.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Luckily that's not what I believe. But people in this particular thread have been incredibly disappointing

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    And it just so happens to confirm how much smarter you are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    If I'm saying that people are disappointing then it means they're less than my expectation and thus not confirming anything.

    In contrast, you confirm the expectations I have developed of you in particular with each successive reply.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Yes, it's classic Donning-krueger.

    Anything that would disprove your confirmation bias is simply filtered out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Which is it - "Donning"-Kruger or confirmation bias? And why are you still talking to me if you think I'm incapable of changing my mind? Lmao.

    You obviously haven't observed enough of me to justify this judgement, and hence there's no evidence I can offer you to convince you you're wrong. So with you having long abandoned any attempt to argue your case and instead just browbeating me, I certainly don't find any compelling reason to continue talking to you. Bye.

    If we interact again, try to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't hold your opinions, and shape your argument to convince that person.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago*

    Donning-Kruger means a permanent confirmation bias, so it's both.

    If we do talk again, I'll try to put myself in the shoes of someone who is euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because he is enlightened by his own intelligence.

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