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To: tsigprofit who wrote (5501)	1/9/2004 11:53:01 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Criminality is not some ideal form- it's simply whatever society defines it to be. Society should be careful, and parsimonious, with the number of behaviors it criminalizes- and criminalizations should not cause more problems than it prevents. Bush had a great idea regarding the illegals, now I wish he'd have the same sort of idea about drugs, then maybe we could put prosecutorial money where it would really help society.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (5501)	1/9/2004 12:03:11 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I am not particularly interested in setting future policy on the basis of things that may have happened one or two hundred years ago. Is it your position that we should just toss away all our laws? I doubt it, and won't do the rhetorical violence of trying to claim you think that. But the fact that we may have broken Indian treaties (bringing slaves wasn't illegal, so that's a red herring), or have raised an insurrection against tyrrany, doesn't in my mind mean that we just toss away our current laws. Nor does, I think, it mean, to get back to my original point, that we punish those who have been waiting for years to enter the country legally and reward those who snuck in illegally. You haven't addressed that point. Would you, please? Do you believe that is a good policy to adopt?