The Philosophy of Crime

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50 years ago this week, 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State. But nobody can agree on who fired first. And the only man who knows the truth is a car salesmen who lives on a mountain.

Covered Topics: Kent State, Terry Norman, National Guard, Kent State Shootings, My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, Pontius Pilate, Objective Truth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugene Wigner, Massimiliano Proietti, Perspectivism, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder

Further Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5cftds7-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7PUy8ZrQE

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-how-repetition-creates-an-illusion-of-truth

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40129

https://web.archive.org/web/20080516080032/http://www.tbo.com/life/kentstate.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Norman

https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks20101116-01.2.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R9QROhm1Sk

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What is reasonable doubt? Can it be defined? Who does it really help?

Covered topics: Caylee Anthony, Reasonable Doubt, Standard of Proof, William Blackstone, Victor V. Nebraska, Rene Descartes, Cartesian Doubt

Further Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIdgW74LCk

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crime-anthony-reaction/anthony-verdict-a-victory-for-reasonable-doubt-experts-say-idUSTRE7646U820110705

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2011/07/nancy_grace_explains_what_the.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/casey_anthony_trial/casey-anthony-juror-jury-sick-stomach-guilty-verdict/story?id=14005609

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3rqRwPPck

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/supreme-court-nonunanimous-juries-oral-argument.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/15/magazine/split-jurors.html

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Learn about the "Mean World Syndrome" and how the world is actually safer than you think.

Topics: Mean World Syndrome, George Gerbner, Logical Fallacies, Aristotle, Serial Killer's Apprentice

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0E4qHqZ5o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-rise-of-mean-world-syndrome-in-social-media/article21481089/

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/oscars-la-la-land-moonlight-arab-muslim-actor-audition-terrorist-i-am-done-a7595261.html

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2010/01/gun_bullets_knives_pulled_from.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/05/the-man-who-counts-the-killings/376850/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/obituaries/george-gerbner-86-researcher-who-studied-violence-on-tv-is-dead.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-murder-rate-hit-new-low-in-2018-11546559793

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Equivocation.html

https://www2.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Secundum%20Quid.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb-h0sXkH4

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When a crime is committed, a clock begins to tick. If you're not charged before time runs out, you can never be prosecuted. But why?

Topics Covered: Ted Conrad, Demosthenes, Statute of Limitations, Phormion, Bill Cosby, Andrea Constand, John Demjanjuk, Amnesty, Thirty Tyrants, Critias, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Charles Griswold, Amy Mihaljevic

Further Reading:

https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=facpubs

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/theodore_john_conrad_the_fbi_h.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlT5Ez_Hfao

https://people.com/crime/who-is-andrea-constand-bill-cosby-accuser/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/forgiveness/

https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2019/10/east-cleveland-event-gives-job-seeking-residents-convicted-of-non-violent-crimes-chance-to-apply-for-amnesty-or-expungement.html

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