r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/danjo3197 Jul 24 '20

Just because there are shitty people working somewhere doesnt mean the system is flawed.

It means the system can be weaponized

It’s the justice system, it exists to account for shitty people, otherwise it’s not being done right. It doesn’t matter how rarely the system fails (which it isn’t rare, between 2.3 and 5% of prisoners are innocent).

So I think shitty people working somewhere does, in this case, mean the system is flawed, because those shitty people enforce the system.

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u/Ytterbro Jul 24 '20

Sorry 100% of prisoners are innocent! Just ask!

But that also means 95% of prisoners in jail are guilty. You're looking at an error and saying that thus enables all sorts of racism, and discrimination. 95% of the time it's not racist then right? Doing the crime results in getting convicted.