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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (24848)	8/25/2001 5:40:03 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

So you grab him by the nuts and you SQUEEEEEEZE. And if that is being politically correct, as you presumed--then too friggin bad, eh??? Thanks to modern policy we don't squeeze we rehabilitate and release. 99% of the time they offend again. Then we rehabilitate again and let them go. Once in awhile the justice system that exists inside prison works and the problem is taken care of. The legal system that put him there does not serve the public, it serves itself. We live in a society uncomfortable with punishment. A society of meat eaters who has never seen a chicken get butchered.

To: Solon who wrote (24848)	8/25/2001 6:58:16 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Now what is the most dangerous weapon ever used in assaulting the safety and rights of free citizens? Is it a 303? Is it a 30 ought six? Is it a psycopath carrying HIV? Is it he hydrogen bomb? Actually, Christopher, it is none of these. I think you know what the mist dangerous weapon is, in the commission of an offence. Oh, yes--you know: It is an ugly vicious mind filed with hate. I find this not up to your usual standard. Not to minimize the evils of hatred, but if I were given the choice of facing two robbers, one armed with an ugly vicious mind filled with hate and one armed with a 30 ought six, I would choose the hate guy in a microsecond. Then, you fail to distinguish between hate for an individual as an individual person, and hate for an individual as a member of a class. If a man comes to hate his wife, and his hatred drives him to kill her, he doesn't get a sentence enhancement for a hate crime. But if he hates all jews and a jew moves in next door and he kills her because she's a jew, under your rules he gets a sentence enhancement. Maybe that works for you. But I don't see why his wife's life gets less respect from the law than a stranger's life does.