Sons of God: Donald and Jean

In a satirical world where the standard of “preponderance of the evidence“ is applied to define truth on any issue, and people can be prosecuted regardless of the emergence of new facts, we would be living in a rather peculiar and often paradoxical infoscape. Let’s explore the U.S. application: Absolute Finality of Initial Judgments: In this world, once a decision is made based on the preponderance of the evidence, it becomes an irrevocable truth. New evidence or facts, no matter how compelling or conclusive, are disregarded once a judgment is passed. This leads to an absurd scenario where an individual could be prosecuted based on the initial evidence, even if later it’s conclusively proven they were innocent. The Tyranny of Majority Belief: Truth becomes not what is factual, but what the majority believes at a given moment. If most people think that the moon is made of cheese, this becomes the accepted ’truth,’ and arguing otherwise could lead to legal repercussions.