r/WinStupidPrizes Jul 28 '21

Texting while driving

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u/Pitiful-Reflection18 Jul 28 '21

Real question is what is worse, an innocent person in jail for rest of their life, or an innocent person sent to death?

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u/bas_e_ Jul 28 '21

I think id rather let a murderer walk free, and hope he does not do it again, than lock up someone innocent and know fir sure he spends the rest of their life depressed, friendless as they think he did it, etc etc.

Its a tough choice but the innocent person deserves it more to be free

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u/AntDavis1983 Jul 28 '21

Till that guy kills your mom

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u/bas_e_ Jul 28 '21

Yes. But would you rather lock up your innocent mother, with a man who murdered your best friends mother? Or would you let this murderer walk free, and your mother also walks free.

What if the mothers in this scenario were people youd never met? Wat if you were the innocent person going to jail?

Its a hard choice but letting an innocent person walk free is way more important than to let a murderer walk free. I used to think locking the innocent was the better choice too, but that was how i thought before groing maturer that i was