Reply #110: Yes and you are doing a poor job of it [View All]

[ProfessorPlum]

From your original post:

"Dean is being very clear here. He is saying it is just as bad for a convict to win a new trial on appeal as it is for an innocent person to be put to death.

It's a viewpoint I find distasteful."

Is it not also possible that he is saying that it is just as bad for the state to fail to protect an innocent victim as it is for an innocent person to be put to death? In each case an innocent person dies. In each case the state can be held responsible. Don't you think that is a much more reasonable set of things to equate than your "spin"?

If you can admit that my interpretation is at least possible, then we can both agree that we are arguing over interpretations over something to which neither of us can prove. We will also know, however, that you will deliberately choose to pick the worst interpretation of anything Dean says.

So, is my interpretation possible or not?