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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (133732)5/27/2004 1:02:05 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
Moral outrage is a perfectly legitimate reason to kill people: it expresses a cosmic sense of justice, that some things are so intolerable, one cannot wait to visit retribution. Ordinarily we distrust acting in hot blood, because we wish reason to supervene and establish with greater precision what is just. Even so, we punish people because they deserve it, and the more they deserve it, the more urgently do we want to punish them.........