Not only that: assuming that the judges were already decided on the matter, the proposed punishment is alarmingly disproportionate to the alleged "crime", both in duration and location, as we are not unaware of Tacumbú prison's infamy.
Given such a luminous standard, and assuming that the judges Moses would appoint would be men (and, one hopes, women) of honor and truth, would we really require ethics rules, court decisions, and press coverage to interpret that standard?
The models thus typically assume that the judge has preferences over policies, an assumption that broadly interprets the idea of a "narrowly self-interested" preference.
(Let us also assume that the judge is already so corrupt that he will not be further corrupted by being offered the bribe).
In our example, let's assume that the physician judges that the harms of alloSCT for a given patient is twice as large as reported in the studies where patients were carefully selected for transplant [ 52].
In short, why assume that academicians are the best judge of the academic world?
A second jury might assume that, since our cleverest judges found the new evidence persuasive, their role is simply to endorse a conviction.
Assuming that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will face many important decisions - including what to wear to work.
This method assumes that the scores given by the judges form a ratio scale, and thus, it is sensible to take means and standard deviations.
But, as we have seen, neither of these claims can accommodate all of Mill's claims about happiness, and both assume that the preferences of competent judges are constitutive of the superiority of the object of the their preferences.
