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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (15282)6/24/2002 9:34:39 AM
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. I find particularly bewildering the cases where a prisoner is driven to attempt suicide only to be forced into a hospital until they are healthy enough to be killed at the time and choosing of their captors. It is really a sick process.

It seems sick at first glance. And in a way, it is 'sick,' or crazy. But not really. Because they're being formally executed, not having their medical needs neglected. It's a ceremony, of sorts, and takes place on a certain date. It says good things about us, ironical and even bizarre though it is, that until that date, we fulfill our responsibilities for the medical care of the prisoner.

You can't really have a clause in any law that says, "Prisoner will be die on September 20 unless he or she dies from an unattended self-inflicted injury first."

The law is odd. Ironies like that make it seem at the same time insane and noble.

Civilization itself can seem very odd, at times, because of course we're animals.
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