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To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (37843)	3/11/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>See, now we can go back to that poll Neocon refers to and ask the same people if they support calling it murder after explaining your 10 to 20 years possible penalties. These people aren't of course thinking about that when they say it's murder.< Well, my friend, this is true for virtually any general crime. If you ask people if stealing is a crime, they likely will say that it is. If you then ask them if a thief should get 10 to 20 years for stealing, they may say that he should not. If you tell them the thief was wealthy and well fed and yet stole from a starving man, then many will say he should get the 20 years/ If you tell them the starving man had stolen from a starving child then the people may say the wealthy thief should not do time. We should not confuse the punishment with the principle of the thing. We should first determine if stealing is criminal. Then and only then should we set up punitive measures based upon mitigating factors. >Try selling this if you intend to prosecute the women as criminals and you have a lost political cause. You'll never get anywhere with this approach.< Well you put it like this and you should lose. I do not advocate "prosecuting women as criminals" (dear me, try arguing the point). I advocate we determine the principle of the thing and then together reason over the punitive measures just as we have done for every other crime. >I'd like to see Liddy Dole run on this platform or Bush and see how well they do in a poll with that kind of a platform against Gore. They would be doomed.< As well they should be. But this is a rather silly platform.