[OT] Plato's Pub and Philosophical Society

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Narrew:
...such as the Crusades or the Inquisitions.

You see, Inquisition is just a good point to proof that the world isn't black and white.

You thinks "fair trail" is good thing? Who thinks the sentence "innocent until proved guilty" is a good one?
Well, you might be surprised but this fundaments of our (western) societies were laid down by the Inquisition. It's highest principle was that under no circumstances a innocent person could every be convicted. If there wasn't 100% proof of the guilt you had to release the accused person. And the only 100% proof was a confession. So, without a confession by the criminal himself you had to release him. I think this is quite remarkable and a very high standard.
Well, the same system created to prevent the punishment of the innocent let to torture. Without confession no conviction so they tortured you to get it. The system itself was build to give you security and ended in horror. The faults of us humans...
But after we abandoned torture it became the fundament of your punitive law systems…