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0 pointsSwenrekcah6mo ago0 comments

The larger problem is that the owner of the credit scheme, whether a corporation or a government, can use it to punish people and depending on the scheme effectively making people social outcasts, without any due process.

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potato37328426mo ago

Due process isn't some silver bullet. Jim crow, witch trials, they all followed due process.

But yeah it's better than some capricious bureaucrat just pulling decisions out their ass with no serious recourse, except all those cases there the process is just that.

SwenrekcahOP6mo ago

Nothing in the world is perfect. Breathing and eating are no silver bullets for staying alive because sometimes people choke on their food and they could also breath toxic fumes. Still it's a pretty solid choice to keep doing both.

potato37328426mo ago

My point is that due process is tangential to fairness or reasonableness.

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account426mo ago

And your locks aren't perfectly secure so you may as well hand me the keys.

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0 pointsSwenrekcah6mo ago0 comments

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potato37328426mo ago

Due process isn't some silver bullet. Jim crow, witch trials, they all followed due process.

But yeah it's better than some capricious bureaucrat just pulling decisions out their ass with no serious recourse, except all those cases there the process is just that.

SwenrekcahOP6mo ago

potato37328426mo ago

My point is that due process is tangential to fairness or reasonableness.

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account426mo ago

And your locks aren't perfectly secure so you may as well hand me the keys.

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