Brian Pfleuger
Moderator Emeritus
Musketeer said:You may not trust the CATO numbers but I do not see you disproving any of the entries they list as having gone wrong.
No, we do not live in a perfect world. With that in mind the how many individuals COTUS rights are justified in being trampled for the collection of evidence? How many lives? Give it as a percentage or per capita please.
It's silly to require such things to be expressed in numbers. There is no acceptable number or percentage. Any such number can always be countered by "Well, if 2 is acceptable what happens when it's 2.01? If 2.01 is acceptable what about 2.02?"
It's silly. 0 is acceptable but it's not the world we live in and, contrary to our oft-quoted "Founding Father's" beliefs, which are not necessarily the Gospel Truth, we must ALL give up some measure of liberty in order to obtain some measure of security.
There will always be necessities that we would rather not be, there will always be innocent men jailed, there will always be innocent lives lost.
They must be mitigated but they can not be eliminated. Any requirement to eliminate errors by "the good" will only allow for greater casualties at the hands of evil.