Salami

This is a great question, thanks!

I'd love to actually have a proper opportunity to study philosophy, since the opportunity to do so was only available to people who did the baccalaureate, ie. not me.

To guide me in this, I really don't know who to pick, frankly, since there are so many great minds who I'd love to have got the chance to understand, but I think I'd pick (strangely enough) George MacDonald, who wrote some of the strangest stuff of the 19th century, but had some of the most profound ideas about everything we could relate to.

OK, my question is:

Let's suppose you were a police officer in charge of a station who had captured a suspected terrorist, who was subsequently found to be innocent through questioning. If you imprison him anyway, public anxiety will decrease and you'll all get promotions.

What would you do?