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Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 04:32:37 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.+NoSpam+com
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Christopher Weeks <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
> What I don't buy from Mike's opinion is that murder isn't sometimes
> understandable. For instance, I can imagine being a troubled thirteen
> year old (I was) who is failing at school, but very gifted (I was), and
> has a few misanthropic friends and no girlfriends while still having
> raging hormones (me again), and is duped by youthful stupidity into
> killing some particularly obnoxious peer (I didn't do this part). Now,
That's one heckuva weird scenario.
I probably fit into most of that as well, and I don't ever recall
being put into a situation where peer pressure or anything else might
have suggested that I murder someone.
> you can take the hard approach and say that kid ought to be put down
> before it breeds, and I can respect that, but I can also see how
Yep, put the kid down.
> properly handled, such a child could turn into a very productive member
> of society who lives a life remorse for his early crime.
>
> Does that matter?
No. Murder is final. No second chance, no reformation, no getting
better. You commit murder (true murder, not justifiable homicides)
and you lose all priveleges as a human being, in my mind.
"Justifiable" is pretty broad for me too. I've known a few battered
women who I think would have been perfectly justified in putting a
bullet in the brain of their loving husbands. 'Course, our society
should do that for them anyway.
> What do we as a society do about that?
Dunno. I think that scenario you described is a little too strange to
really think about.
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| (...) Yes, I am. Maybe you think it's a fault to judge other people by their actions. I don't. Let's see, what types of people do we have in prisons, for the most part? Murderers, rapists, child molesters, thieves, etc. Yep, scum. Maybe you think (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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