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To: michael97123 who wrote (157178)	1/27/2005 2:21:59 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<We have capital punishment, no?> That is a form of punishment for those who have been tried and found guilty -- there is ample controversy over the legitimacy of the death penalty but it is embedded in our judicial process. Please point me to the judicial process that gives the police the right to pick people up off the street and torture them in the name of crime prevention.

To: michael97123 who wrote (157178)	1/27/2005 2:53:47 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

I think you are approaching a point that involves more of a personal decision than a sanctioned policy. The issue for society is to decide what it will sanction as and noble representation of the human endeavor and what it will condemn as fundamentally deleterious. I would not judge a person who is suffering some unspeakable agony and who by his own choice gives up the ghost. However, such a person must be willing to release society and me from every mien of responsibility for such a personal choice. Therefore, I am dead set against laws that proclaim suicide to be a legal and just choice for citizens. I doubt that you can formulate any policy statements that would cover the extreme cases you are referring to while at the same time protecting the nobility of principle on which we stand as a society. In an extreme case you might violate accepted standard as a matter of personal choice and nobility of character, when in your own mind it is the only right thing to do in a totally unique circumstance. When or if the unique circumstances come to light society may or may find your actions to be justified. It’s the thing that separates authentic heroes from villains.