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To: E who wrote (30831)	2/14/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

Your posting was very well expressed, Elsa, particularly your observing that one can be equally revolted and angered to rage and still feel qualms about the state's taking that final and irrevocable step. There is no contradiction. Thank you for expressing the position so clearly.

To: E who wrote (30831)	2/15/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

E, I agree that you can hold a different position than you feel. My view is that the death penalty should be administered to to those where there is overwhelming evidence that they did it, such as O.J. I believe that would result in the death of the fewest innocents overall. At the same time we need to constantly work to improve the system. Del

To: E who wrote (30831)	2/15/1999 8:27:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

... my belief is I should be faithful to my husband, and I am .. E. it would make your writing much more interesting to me (as if you cared) if you wouldn't flaunt your fidelity -- but let us guess, or change the last "and I am" to something like "and by and large I am" he would no doubt approve your stylistic grace notes qand we all would feel less submerged in upstate morality -- There is a Chinese poem in which the fisherman says he washes his feet in the muddy river water but his hat string in clear sprng water. I think he means the things close to our eyes and mind must be pure while while when we walk in the mud we are naturally dirty. If we were making laws I believe we would do our best to prevent murder even at some cost. We would change what we could, and would only kill if we had no other way to protect. But we live in an imperfect world where Dahmers, amd Mansons, and OJ's live and we might prosecute them cruelly were it our duty in the muddy world. Adieu.