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To: Dayuhan who wrote (81784)	6/15/2000 2:50:00 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 108807

<<What are the arguments supporting it?>> Can you gaurantee that your cold blooded murderer will not kill, rape, or maime again while serving the life sentence. He could kill some white collar pencil pushing criminal that was not up for any capital offense. Or harm one of your dopers that committed a "victimless crime." This is not as rare as an innocent man being executed for cold blooded murder. In fact it is common and it is of your making. Once you have them in custody it becomes your responsibility to deal with the evil they represent. We are self aware and socially conscious creatures. I do not want to deal with cold blooded murders at all. I want to deal with decent people who consider my struggles as they consider their own in the context of fairness and day to day living. That is not how the cards are dealt. I am part of a large society that has in its make up cold blooded murderers and once in custody their course becomes our decision. So, can they be put in a place outside of decent society where they can no longer have their evil impact on us? No, any artificial warehousing you provide becomes a subculture of the larger culture. In addition, this subculture leaks into the main stream culture. Where ever you choose to put them, the problems they bring to our culture persist. The choice to be made once they are in our custody is how do we correct the wrong that they represent. If you can convince me that life in prison means that they never have an opportunity to influence the society that I am a part of again, fine; that seems equivalent to death to me. Unfortunately that is not, never has been and never will be the outcome of life in prison. How does the subculture that you've created in the federal prisons represent a just course of action to you? It seems to me to have no baring on justice at all. The reason we can't seem to clean up the mess is we haven't accepted our responsibility to create a healthy society. The bottom line is you haven't shown me a convincing argument that you can care for cold blooded murderers in a way that gives me the opportunity for what I want in a society. You simply have no way to deal with them. They used their opportunity at life to commit cold blooded murder etc. Who are you to say that that opportunity must continue?

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