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To: Ish who wrote (81567)	6/12/2000 8:42:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Decriminalize- then one need go after NO dealers. After all people can kill themselves with alcohol- might as well let them kill themselves with other drugs- or not. Adults should be able to do anything they want to themselves- as long as it doesn't actually injure anyone else physically- mental injury is bullshit and I don't hold with making laws to protect big grownup people from emotional harm.

To: Ish who wrote (81567)	6/12/2000 9:41:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Now big time dealers and serial killers should get the vigilante short rope and tall tree solution. We have the mess cleaned up. If you string up the wrong guy, wouldn't that qualify as premeditated murder, with conspiracy to boot? Obviously somebody has to pay, but who do you execute? The judge? The jury? I agree with X on the subject of drug dealers. Serial killers are not nearly so common as the TV would have you believe, and there really isn't much point in stringing them up. Once you consider all the appeals and necessary safeguards, it's cheaper to lock them up forever than to fry them, and since serial killers are almost by definition psychotic, killing them is hardly going to deter future serial killers. Deterrence, of course, only works on criminals who consciously weigh the probability and severity of punishment against the intended benefits of the crime, and most common criminals hardly fit this profile. White collar-criminals do, though... perhaps we should establish a deterrent by stringing up a few of those....