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| DATE | 2005-03-02 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] We have truly lost it ....
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Dave_att wrote:
> Billy,
>
> I checked the message I sent by having it resent to me and I dont seem to have the linefeed problem that you mentioned.
Well, you're wrong. Use the source.
> Anyhow lets get to the heart of the matter, you dont believe in the death penalty for the crime of murder in the first degree. Is that right?
Correct. I don't think the 8 year old's case as described would be
Murder 1, btw.
> You know you almost had me goin with the example I gave of the eight year old offing her mother.
> You may be right , a little therapy may get her anger under control.
>
> Maybe I can deal with the eight year old , but what of the seventeen year old that killed his father with a samurai sword while he was sleeping. This took place in Long Island this week. (Oh I forgot you dont
> believe in the death penalty).
Well which are we talking about?
Clearly, a samurai sword much more deliberate than a push
into traffic. I don't think the 8 yearold had any idea
what mommy getting "runned over" by a taxi would really look like.
A 17 year old is a man. He might as well be 18 (but he's not).
I still don't want to fry him. The difference between me and him
is that I DON'T put swords into people's chests, nor do I want
to become that sort of person. The public servant who flips
the switch to kill this guy is my employee. I don't want to
pay assassins.
> Maybe Im just a bible thumping, right wing conservative, who feels that a wrong should be righted.
See, I wouldn't use the phrase bible-thumping, either.
You haven't invoked or thumped the Bible yet. However, if
you want to get into an argument with me about using the Bible
as a handbook for sentencing guidelines, you're free to lose that
one, too.
Wrongs can't BE righted.
Wrongs are just wrongs.
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