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Blackstone's[0] ratio comes to mind when thinking about laws like this:

> It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio

In the UK, they'd prefer ten innocents suffer than one innocent escape.

Correction: the Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers' editorial directors would prefer ten innocents suffer than one bogneyman[1] enjoy free roam of the nation.

[1] Substitute "paedophile", "Islamic terrorist", "asylum seeker" as per this weeks' dim-right-wing national outrage.

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