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"Do the job" depends a lot on what the facts are. Unfortunately, unless you were actually there, you can't know perfectly.

It's a matrix: a perfect system would always punish the guilty and refuse to punish the innocent.

Without perfect information, you have to choose: will you bias the outcome punish the innocent, or to not punish the guilty?



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