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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (81578)	6/13/2000 12:42:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

How about cereal killers, the food execs who reformulate or discontinue a perfectly fine staple? Part of This Complete Breakfast; have they no respect for Tradition? I miss my Apple Jacks.

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (81578)	6/13/2000 4:46:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I do not believe in killing criminals, though it is easy to say that a given class of individuals has forfeited their right to live. The reasons are pretty simple. Killing people saves no money: if we observe the safeguards it is more expensive to execute than to incarcerate. If we abandon the safeguards we use the justice of the lynch mob. Killing criminals has been repeatedly demonstrated to have no deterrent effect whatsoever. So why do it? The only answer I can come up with is revenge: it feels good to see the bastards die. I put this up against the ever-present possibility, inevitable in systems which are managed by humans, and thus fallible, that we might at some point execute an innocent. The pleasure of revenge just doesn't seem to justify taking that chance.