So how would you deal with the people passing out fake grenades while telling everyone they are real? Would it be any different if they passed out real grenades and said they were fake?
Would you support preemptively testing everyone in similar ways, and imprisoning all those who failed? If you described the hypothetical on a paper, and asked people to rate their likelihood of pulling the pin on the imaginary grenade in the imaginary DMV, on a scale from 0 (never) to 10 (always), what numbers would they have to choose to remain free?
I, for one, am completely uncomfortable imprisoning people based solely on their psychological profile rather than as punishment for actual harm inflicted in the real world. Some undercover investigations do seem eerily similar to selecting someone based on a profile and then continually testing him until he fails to meet the "stay out of jail" threshold. It just doesn't seem like ethical policing to me.
Would you support preemptively testing everyone in similar ways, and imprisoning all those who failed? If you described the hypothetical on a paper, and asked people to rate their likelihood of pulling the pin on the imaginary grenade in the imaginary DMV, on a scale from 0 (never) to 10 (always), what numbers would they have to choose to remain free?
I, for one, am completely uncomfortable imprisoning people based solely on their psychological profile rather than as punishment for actual harm inflicted in the real world. Some undercover investigations do seem eerily similar to selecting someone based on a profile and then continually testing him until he fails to meet the "stay out of jail" threshold. It just doesn't seem like ethical policing to me.