Wow... I guess this is what you would call inflation.
[I sought some advice from someone who used to post here]
William Blackstone said in the 1760s: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
Then your Benjamin Franklin got ahead of himself:
Now with you it gets to 1,000!
I guess we need to get our feet back firmly on the ground with this:
The story is told of a Chinese law professor, who was listening to a British lawyer explain that Britons were so enlightened, they believed it was better that ninety-nine guilty men go free than that one innocent man be executed. The Chinese professor thought for a second and asked, "Better for whom?"
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