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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (75372)	9/23/2003 3:28:12 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Do you also feel the opposite, that if somebody does a good thing but it winds up having a bad result, are they also responsible for the bad result? If a person does a bad thing that produces a good result, that person was lucky, and maybe others were lucky, too, but that in no way cancels out the bad thing. If a person is doing a good thing and is not conspicuously negligent in going about it, then a bad outcome doesn't make it a bad thing. Shooting some stranger because you're having a tough time--there's no excuse, in my mind. Now I wouldn't give the guy the death penalty or send him to some sewer of a prison, but he still killed someone without any cause or right. Let's sympathize they hypothetical. Say some bad to the bond guy climbs up on a water tower and starts shooting people. As it turns out, the one person he kills was a serial child molester that the cops have been looking for. Do you prosecute him for murder?