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Anecdotal evidence: Law
Witness testimony is a common form of evidence in law, and law has mechanisms to test witness evidence for reliability or credibility. Legal processes for the taking and assessment of evidence are formalized. Some witness testimony may be described as anecdotal evidence, such as individual stories of harassment as part of a class action lawsuit. However, witness testimony can be tested and assessed for reliability. Examples of approaches to testing and assessment include the use of questioning, evidence of corroborating witnesses, documents, video and forensic evidence. Where a court lacks suitable means to test and assess testimony of a particular witness, such as the absence of forms of corroboration or substantiation, it may afford that testimony limited or no "weight" when making a decision on the facts.
Witness testimony is a common form of evidence in law, and law has mechanisms to test witness evidence for reliability or credibility. Legal processes for the taking and assessment of evidence are formalized. Some witness testimony may be described as anecdotal evidence, such as individual stories of harassment as part of a class action lawsuit. However, witness testimony can be tested and assessed for reliability. Examples of approaches to testing and assessment include the use of questioning, evidence of corroborating witnesses, documents, video and forensic evidence. Where a court lacks suitable means to test and assess testimony of a particular witness, such as the absence of forms of corroboration or substantiation, it may afford that testimony limited or no "weight" when making a decision on the facts.
We value eyewitness testimony and use it all the time. Since it can be tested one cannot simply dismiss it out of hand.
It can range from sheer bigotry or fear of what’s different to a religiously-based belief that it’s an abomination to the Lord and deserving of death or at least repression.
The slave trade was instigated by people who were Christian. So were child labour and the denial of women’s rights and colonial repression leading to the death of millions of native peoples.
In Britain a group of Yorkshire Christians campaigned against child labor. Their campaign began after Richard Oastle, a evangelical believer in the Anglican tradition, began to expose the what he termed "slavery" and began to sound the alarm about the horrors of child labor.
It would be helpful if you wouldn't lump an entire group into every historical injustice and claim the Christians are to blame. For every injustice, there were plenty of Christians (and non-Christians) fighting alongside to end injustices.
The largely “godless nations" of Europe and Scandinavia et al, are the most socially progressive nations on the planet.
By “properly understood and properly applied” you presumably don’t mean little things like the Inquisitions, the Salem witch hunts, the Crusades, the decimation of the Native Americans and Australian Aborigines or the Conquistadors of Latin America or the multitude of religious wars etc, etc, etc?
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