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To: TimF who wrote (5408)	4/14/2003 6:28:20 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

To me, the death penalty represents - both structurally and philosophically - the ultimate reaches and failures of big government: a clumsy, torturously complicated bureaucracy symbolizing the worst of best intentions gone awry. If we - as we should - find anathema the idea of the government running mass transportation, tampering with our freedom of speech and expression, and otherwise interfering in the many facets of our personal and communal lives, I don't see how the death penalty is, in any form, acceptable. A most elemental right - so elemental, I'm inclined to believe, that it need not be stated explicitly - is the right not to be killed by ones state. To be blunt, and in the Rothbardian tradition: I'm more comfortable (which is to say, imperceptibly) with the idea of mob justice than that of the state bringing its heft...whether or not 'justified'...on its citizens. LPS5