送交者: mangolasi 于 2006-6-27, 10:43:13:
回答: 钟南山和收容制度 由 Jingzhang2 于 2006-6-27, 10:02:19:
A sad and unfortunate triumph of instrumentalist/consequentialist philosophy.
In order to "prevent" a small number of members of a group to harm, you deprive the whole group the freedom to move...and after they do move, the freedom to walk around in a city and from physical abuse.
I can tell you in America, the Blacks are statistically significant factor of drug traffic and violent crime. And the number of people die from those crimes are higher than the possibility of black's death if they are put into the "preventional prison". And in WWII, there must be some Japanese spy among American citizens, and people deaths from the activity of those spies must be larger than those died in the camps American put their Japanese-ethnic copatriots. Are those action justified?
Before a person really "does" something, he/she can not be deprive the basic freedom by preventional measure.
And thinking in this way is actually not contributing to a constructinve discussion and solution. Non Cantonese are not born eviler than Cantonese. Even if they are the people who contribute the majority of crimes, they are not doing that for fun. Rather than finger pointing, people should really think of how to make them find a job as soon as possible, or make the expected cost of crime higher--either by increasing the probability of being found out, or increasing the cost once found out, etc etc. There are tons of public policy which is more effective than this anti-human right way (shou-rong houses needs public money too...). If people are obssessed in this way, it actually contribute little than blinding their eyes on others.
Alas, there is nothing new in this idea. Minority Report was written 50 years ago.