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Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:48:12 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.com+spamcake+
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Moz (Chris Moseley) <moz1@ihug.com.au> wrote:
> > > I'm agin em because of the error factor, and because I want the
> > > criminals working their fingers off the rest of their days paying
> > > restitution to the victims.
>
> Larry, I believe even the USA abolished slavery some time ago. Unless
> you let the prisoners choose, and pay them, then you've just bought
> it back.
Hrmmm... interesting take on that opinion, I suppose. Certainly one
of the ways people would try to prevent prison labor. 'Course, in my
limited understanding of how prison industries work right now, the
prisoners do, in fact, get paid. IMO, simply providing them with
food, shelter, clothing, and everything else that they need to survive
would count as payment.
> > If the choices are let the scum sit in a prison watching tv and
> > reading books, maybe even taking courses and such, or frying them, I
> > say fry 'em.
>
> Frying is known to be ineffective. at least with the legal system you
> have chosen. Even by the most generous estimates it is cheaper to
> keep someone in prison for life than to execute them in the USA.
Well, our legal system is a little flakey. I'm not interested in
reforming criminals, or deterrance when it comes to executing capital
criminals. I'm interested in executing them. If potential capital
offenders have so little fear of our legal system that the fact that
someone was just executed for murder doesn't deter them, so be it. We
can execute them too.
> Using a legal system designed primarily to enrich lawyers in an
> attempt to find justice is like asking politicians to find the
> most efficient way to acheive something.
Agreed.
> Moz
> (deeply cynical about all legal systems)
Deeply passionate about punishing murdering scum.
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