Comment on TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockin

streetman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Victorian courts have a higher standard because they didn’t allow DNA evidence

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What makes you think victorian court has higher standards than modern day ones?

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  • edg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think they mean the standards were lower in Victorian times.

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    • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      yes we can make an assumption that that is indeed what they think, but that’s not actually what they said with the sentence “This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court”. So perhaps they accidentally used incorrect phrasing, but even so, the logic doesn’t follow - if something doesn’t hold up in modern-day court, that tells us nothing about whether or not it would hold up in Victorian times, when standards of evidence were indeed lower.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He’s saying they wouldn’t understand the DNA claim in the first place.

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