<story><title>The Reykjavik Confessions</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_7617/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anvandare</author><text>An example, I&amp;#x27;m afraid, of situations that happen all too often around the world. When we look at the justice system as any other abstract system (with positive&amp;#x2F;negative feedback loops) we find that the actors (the judges, prosecutors, investigators, etc.) are never rewarded for finding &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; truth. After all, how can you ever know that you found the truth? They are rewarded for finding &lt;i&gt;a&lt;/i&gt; truth. For making the picture fit.&lt;p&gt;And that is why you should never collaborate with (or trust) the system. They aren&amp;#x27;t interested in what&amp;#x27;s good for you, they are interested in what&amp;#x27;s good for themselves: finding someone to convict and thereby pushing their yearly evaluation into the positives.&lt;p&gt;[ed.: typo]</text></comment>
<story><title>The Reykjavik Confessions</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_7617/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klausjensen</author><text>The woman involved, Erla Bolladottir, was my Icelandic language teacher when I moved to Iceland. She is an extraordinarily kind and helpful person, and it angers and saddens me that she has been put through this nightmare because of lousy police-work and ill will.</text></comment>