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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: CharleyMike who wrote (82821)6/24/2000 2:35:00 AM
From: nihil   of 108807
 
You miss the point of a good system of justice. People should only be punished for what they do. Hamlet pointed out that if everyone got what they deserved who'd scape whipping?
I remember a famous statement of Judge Scalia discussing the death penalty on TV anent a man being executed for a crime he didn't commit -- "Well, he probably deserved execution for other things he did."
As a general rule, I would prefer to live in a country in which people were punished for things they were proved to have done, not for other things.
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