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

To: Lane3 who wrote (53832)	8/5/2002 3:42:52 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Excuse making is a very slippery slope with no end in sight You are so right. Many crimes by their very definition ... without any further inquiry .... prove deep mental aberration. Examples would be a mother drowning her young children, or a teenager shooting up his school and killing 20 people. We don't need to waste time with deep psychological studies of these individuals ... we know by the very character of their act that they are abnormal and mentally/psychologically defective human beings. The slippery slope is that ... once we fool around with "knowing intent" and "mental capacity" and the like as moderators of responsibility ... the very worst, the most outrageous, the most atrocious crimes ... would have to go unpunished a priori. There is simply no way out of this box.

To: Lane3 who wrote (53832)	8/5/2002 7:31:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

cool I can say ditto to that I don't want excuses where violent crime is concerned- because excuses are inexact. But I'm more than sympathetic about excuses in other areas. Although I want to make it clear I would not execute anyone. Lock 'em up for life, no parole, and keep legalize or decriminalize drugs crimes to free up the beds. Do it NOW.