I believe that we can count the number of laws that agree or disagree with a belief, as a way of measuring how much society believes something is wrong.
For example every society believes that murder is wrong, and often punishes it with some sort of criminal justice program.
A way of quantifying this so that you can give scores to conclusions based on the quantity of laws that are said to support a belief (like murder is bad) and the quality of arguments that a law supports a certain belief about a behavior being bad, the relationship score between the belief and the law, the severity of punishment for breaking the law, and the relative number of laws that can be said to agree or disagree with the belief, or any of the supporting arguments, would be to make an equation and build it in software.
A way of counting all of this with a powerful algorithm could be expressed this way:
· LAn/LDn: Laws that are argued to agree or disagree or disagree with a conclusion
· LAn+LDn::Number of laws submitted in this forum as reasons to agree or disagree with a conclusion. I’m just trying to find some way of normalizing this factor, or weigh it, so that it doesn’t carry too much or too little weight. Obviously, like any other factor on this forum, we could tweak multiplication factors, or allow users to tweak them.
· LSn: Linkage Score: The linkage would become its own argument, with reasons to agree, and a score between -1 and 1. A negative score would be a law that actually makes a counter argument to the intended suggestion, 0 has no relation, and 1 fully supports the intended conclusion.
· Psn: Punishment severity. For instance is the punishment a felony or a misdemeanor. How many years of prison are people typically punished.
Examples: Is the Burqa so important that it should be required, or so bad it should be banned?
For example, the fact that almost all countries outlaw “murder of innocent adults” represents the amount of validity that most societies attribute to a belief. It may be rare that you would have laws that disagree and agree on non controversial topics. However, there are countries that ban and require women to wear Burqas. A way of measuring if mankind thinks it is wrong to wear the burqa would be to take the number of countries that ban them (France, etc) and subtract the number of countries that require them (Afghanistan, Saudia Arabia, etc). Depending on what side of this is used to support, you would subtract or add the percentage of countries that ban it compared to the total number of countries that have laws on the use of an item.
Examples: Is shooting an intruder a good activity that helps protect law followers, or is it a bad activity that ends a life too soon
You could add the percentage of states that say it is wrong to shoot an intruder, as evidence to support the belief that is wrong to do this.
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