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To: Lane3 who wrote (15946)	6/29/2002 9:50:03 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 21057

I will mull it over, and see if we can find a greater area of agreement.....

To: Lane3 who wrote (15946)	6/29/2002 3:19:18 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 21057

I have no problem with the idea of including restitution as an aspect of sentencing, where feasible. I think that is a good idea. However, the appropriate response to guilt is to mourn, at the very least: to fast, to forego pleasures, to live in desolation until one feels that one has suffered enough, and is purified. If you are sorry, you act sorry, until such time as it is appropriate to clean up and get on with your life. That is, I think, the natural emotional response to the knowledge of guilt, just as ebullience (jumping, whistling, singing, laughing) is the natural response to joy or triumph. Whether you are sorry or not, society will do its best to make you sorry that you did what you did, and if you embrace responsibility for your actions, the punishment will also be embraced......