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To: Bill who wrote (19025)	8/8/2002 12:43:05 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

" was quite sure of what I wrote. Not so sure about what you extracted." What you wrote was this: "The liberal position has always been that it is better to let a killer back on the street to kill again than to allow the state the power to extinguish him. Victims be damned" We are both sure of that. What I "extracted" was that you consider liberals to be "uncaring". I suppose an alternative explanation for "victims be damned" might be that liberals are insane. I find both propositions ludicrous and flippant. I have never met a conservative or a liberal whose attitude toward victims was anywhere close to the orientation implied by "victims be damned". There are avowed liberals on this thread, and they have never expressed disdain or hostility toward victims. Such an attitude toward victims would perhaps be representative of a psychopathic serial killer. It hardly represents a political orientation...