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To: TimF who wrote (612)	6/17/2008 4:11:37 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

"Imagine a 100,000 people like that. Maybe one of them does a lot of good later in life, and also never harms anyone again. I have imagined it and I have asked if anyone ever heard of it actually happening ... no one has given me a factual account yet. 1) heinous criminals have committed abominable acts against individual human beings and as an enemy to the nature of their own humanity and society. 2) There is a difference between common criminals who are competing in society but break the fundamental rules the rest of us agree to... vs a heinous criminal who violates humanity itself. Rule breakers are subject to correction because breaking rules does not have to permanently or pervasively embed itself into their persona. Rule breakers can decide at any point in time to begin following rules and be acceptable members of a society based on rule of law. 3) A rule breaker can make reparations, amends, or pay a price and be reconciled in a resolute way with neighbors. Nothing stops a former rule breaker from being seen as a do gooder. 4) A heinous criminal can of course do good and may have spent 99.9% of his life doing good ... working, solving problems, helping an old woman carry groceries etc. But we have no way of reconciling with a criminal like Tsutomu Miyazaki, whether he is capable of good contributions or not. I would love to be convinced otherwise but I haven't seen a convincing argument for that yet.