Comment Nothing new (Score 1) 311
Everybody "recognizes that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent," but those are still the reasons behind most errors.
I don't think the society has imposed an "impossible burden of trying to be permanently right" on anybody; it just imposes a reasonable burden of trying not to make mistakes because they are lazy, stupid, incompetent, untrained, evil, etc...
AFAIK, that's the whole point behind trials and parliament hearings.
One more thing, we can't rule out the fact that some people are stupid. To put it in the theory's lingo: the inductive reasoning of those people generates conclusions are probabilistically false.