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To: one_less who wrote (15536)	6/26/2002 8:20:45 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 21057

The notion that we need to exact a measure of flesh, equivelant to some crime having been committed is barbarously unnecessary, ineffective, and a cruel idea, IMO. I would not go so far as to call it barbarous. It is too common and too human. OTOH, I find it bizarre that thinking people would embrace and defend it. There is much that we humans feel that is less than noble. I don't see any reason to feel bad about what is natural to us, but neither do I see any reason to glorify it. We've had this discussion before and not too long ago. My sense of humanism won't permit me to settle for what seems backward. Above all don't change things....because that might change things...gasp. I understand resistance to change. What's harder for me to deal with is resistance to entertain an idea. It doesn't cost anything--in fact it can be quite fun--to look as something different, turn it over a few times, see if anything about it resonates. Our system of justice is at no risk of actual change any time soon.