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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (10630)	5/21/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Okay - there goes my day... :-(

To: Michael Sphar who wrote (10630)	5/21/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 71178

Today, as I was driving somewhere listening to a talk show, the host jokingly said he had a theory that explained all this. That twenty years ago or so, there was some sort of genetic split and in the same way that Neanderthal and the first homo sapiens evolved along different paths, this modern mutation coexists unnoticed with the rest of us. He called them homo stupidus. It was all very clever. But at the core don't we all harbor a suspicion that there is an "us" and a "them"? Also today on the Dallas news, and you may have heard this, one of the young animals who beat a young boy almost to death and murdered and raped his 11 year old sister, has decided he doesn't want the death penalty. He has sent a message from jail that if he gets more than 30 years, he'll make sure that more people die. And he giggles. Surely he is one of the mutations---one of "them" Or is our pretending there is a human mutation which knows no morality, which is unrelated to "us", just a way of denying what "we" are becoming?

To: Michael Sphar who wrote (10630)	5/22/1998 2:39:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Michael, I know you are upset at the moment, but don't you think that the sheer availability of guns has anything at all to do with what happened today? All of the news discussions I have heard point out to how easy it is for children, who are still learning about self control, to blow someone away. I must say that some adults in this society have the same problem!! When there are guns around and tempers flare, the outcome is usually much worse than if there were no weapons. The other point I have heard raised repeatedly is that children who murder come from violent, dysfunctional families, and are unattached somehow. This particular teenager cannot receive the death penalty because of Oregon's laws, but shouldn't our society play a role in preventing incidents like this, rather than executing younger and younger children?