[Harris] lingers wistfully over a vision of society in which sophisticated lie detectors are concealed in places where honesty is at a premium, for example law courts and political events. A lie would set off an alarm. He grants that the devices could never be wholly reliable but notes that we occasionally execute the innocent as the price we pay for the practice of executing the guilty. Apparently we are to find comfort in this thought.
Ouch.
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