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To: cosmicforce who wrote (112210)	5/29/2009 4:36:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

A law that forbids begging when no viable alternative exists is unconscionable. Maybe, but that wasn't the question. I'm not asserting it would be a good law, that it would be reasonable, fair, or just, or asking if you think it would be. I'm only asking if it would violate the legal principle of equality under the law. All sorts of bad, even unjust or abusive things don't violate that principle. If the law required that every person in the nation submit to a torture session once a year, that would be an unconscionable law, but it wouldn't violate the principle in question.