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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (16069)	6/29/2002 8:03:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

If it lets van Whatshername walk, I consider it fatally flawed. Oh Laz, I was just playing with a different concept of criminal justice, like they do in Sci Fi stories. I was fiddling with a notion of what a criminal justice system might look like without punishment, just for the academic exercise. Clearly a lot of people cannot imagine a system without punishment. That may be because it's a squirrelly idea or it may be because they have too much of an investment in punishment to think outside that paradigm or it may be that they didn't get how the game was played. If you can't let Whatshername out into society once she is no longer a threat to society, then you don't dig my model and there's no point in talking about the particulars of one murder or two murders. It's OK that you don't dig what I postulated. I understand that. I expected most people wouldn't. I was just 1)amusing my brain by examining something outside the box and 2)trying to get a better idea of what goes on inside the heads of those who, unlike me, are heavy into retribution. Earlier, I made an off the cuff remark about going back to work. Maybe I should consider it. I really like doing stuff like this. They (actually you) used to pay me to do it. Maybe that was a better deal than I thought at the time.