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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1553)10/8/2000 12:30:40 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
Someone that is willing to kill or grievously injure another human simply because they caught them doing something criminal deserves to be put away for life, if not drawn and quartered in public.

Well the lovely Shangri-La you describe is called Saudi Arabia. They round up Americans and force to go to "Chop-chop Square" to see the consequences of breaking the law. A nurse who worked in Saudia Arabia related this story. You can actually see beheading and limb amputation on Saturdays.

Ron, again, you recognize the problem. Crime. But you are still fixated on the symptoms and supplying solutions AFTER the problem manifests. Without prevention, you will get more. That is what I was talking about with the weeds in an earlier post. Weeds are best handled with prevention.

You have feral humans. That's a good analogy. But having an open season on feral humans doesn't promote the values that you probably want. Capturing and preventing conception in that population probably does. Is it "Big Brother"? Well yeah, but who else do you want doing it? Death squads of right wing vigilantes like the war being waged against street children in Brazil? By the time a kid is 10-12 years old, if you haven't intervened, that kid is probably lost to the "Dark Side".

The enterprise zones ARE a good idea, BTW.
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