There is a post at Why Don't You Blog entitled Victims Are Not Experts that identifies just the type of common moral fallacy that I like to bring people's attention to.
Being the victim of a crime (or knowing somebody who was the victim of a crime) does not give one insight into the type of system that best fights that type of crime, or on how to create a system that does not cause more problems than it solves.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Victims as Experts
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Thanks for linking to my post. This crazy idea that people have authority as a result of suffering amazes me on a daily basis.
It really does choke me how much the mainstream media play on though. Watching the TV news I regularly get the urge to put my foot through the screen!!! :-)
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