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Down with Boolean logic!
Jul. 8th, 2016 04:57 pmLet's put the pharma liability issue aside for now.
What if the police used tranquilizer bullets to subdue suspects instead of live ammunition? Would it reduce the number of fatal incidents? Or would it encourage everybody to use the new weapon more often? What if all "internal" bullets were tranquilizers? Essentially, the new approach would be equivalent to the "technology" the Spiderman uses in the comics, although his net provides a degree of safety that tranquilizers don't.
From a theoretical perspective, instead of dividing the world into friends and enemies, we would acknowledge the existence of the "unknowns". The tranquilizers would give the police time to determine the epistemic status of the suspect.
What if the police used tranquilizer bullets to subdue suspects instead of live ammunition? Would it reduce the number of fatal incidents? Or would it encourage everybody to use the new weapon more often? What if all "internal" bullets were tranquilizers? Essentially, the new approach would be equivalent to the "technology" the Spiderman uses in the comics, although his net provides a degree of safety that tranquilizers don't.
From a theoretical perspective, instead of dividing the world into friends and enemies, we would acknowledge the existence of the "unknowns". The tranquilizers would give the police time to determine the epistemic status of the suspect.
