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To: TimF who wrote (4611)	2/3/2001 7:03:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 82486

If it was a new episode then I did not see it. What insight would you say it gives on the difference between vengeance and justice? It was a new episode. Voyager encountered prisoners being transported to their planet for execution. It turned out that one of them had a genetic defect that caused him to commit murder. The doctor fixed it and he was a changed man, as gentle as could be. Voyager appealed to the family of the victim for clemency but it was denied. My take on the moral of the story is that, if you let the family of the victim decide the sentence, what you get is vengeance. My sense of the difference between justice and vengeance is that the former focuses on respecting the injury to the victim and the latter focuses on punishment for the perpetrator. Karen

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