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To: TimF who wrote (618)	6/17/2008 5:35:01 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 3816

"If Miyazaki had done all the things I mentioned above (and you can throw in the invention of a technology to stop 90% of all future train wrecks), would he have "made contributions that exceed his harm"? No. In the case of common crime we can consider the cost/benefit potential of the correction system being able to give us back a good (corrected) neighbor. We are limited according to our human capacity and our justice system is reflective of that limitation but this is certainly within our capacity. Heinous crimes committed by a person like Tsutomu Miyazaki are beyond the limits underwhich we have control as individuals or as a society of human beings. The crimes he committed are not measurable by a cost to society. They are not measurable at all except as an utter abomination of humanity. It is not reparable, reconcilable, or accountable. "Are you looking for any sizable practical benefit at all from the person later in life? A practical benefit that is larger than the harm from their crimes? Other people accepting them as good people later in life? What exactly is the thing you are talking about." No, no, and no. If Miyazaki came to me and offered to save Humanity and the Earth from complete annihilation in payment for his bad deed, I would be forced to accept the end of the world. My point from the beginning has been that heinous criminality by it's very nature has no Earthly resolution.