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To: Neocon who wrote (16028)	6/29/2002 5:49:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I should mention the social compact we have with the aggrieved, who renounce private vengeance on the assumption that the state will be diligent in meting out justice. Continue down a path of "no fault" criminality, where responsibility is limited and treated much like civil liability, and we disdain to punish, and the social compact will be violated, and the aggrieved will seek their own vengeance once again........ Are you so sure? As with any change of paradigm, the change period would be brutal. But once we were operating under the new system and kids had been raised under that system, do you really think that people would want to give up their opportunity to seek redress and reparations from their attacker in exchange for the warm glow of knowing that he was rotting in jail watching TV for ten to twenty?