Reasonable doubt: How society got its rules wrong
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How Does This Relate to the Law?
Philosophers spent a long time wrangling over what a reasonable person looked like. They had to be rational, able to make informed and evidence-based decisions. And they had to be led when they're making those decisions by intellectual reasoning rather than pure emotion. How does this relate to the law? Proving something beyond reasonable doubt, for instance, so we have the word reasonable in there. Is there a specific person that made that ball? Or did it sort of come together in an enormous conglomerate of whoever had power?
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