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Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:13:54 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:23:49 GMT, Christopher Weeks
<clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
> Jasper Janssen wrote:
> > Taking this remark out of the post..
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> It's much easier for you to do what you want with it that way, right?
It's also good netiquette.
> If I come home and find some guy raping my wife, and I shoot him, I
> shouldn't be punished. Not at all. Now, it would be reasonable to
> investigate to make sure that a rape was really in progress and not
> something else.
If you come home, find someone there, and shoot him, you have shot
down an innocent man and therefore deserve to be punished. That is
what "innocent until proven guilty" means.
> I'm not really a libertarian. Replacing our socialist system with what
The US. Socialist. Please, you're not that stoopid.
> Since a system like the one I advocate hasn't been tried, I'm willing to
> entertain that I might be wrong and that it might not work. If it
> didn't, I would evaluate what went wrong, and work to correct the deficits.
> What's unreasonable about any of this?
Because there may not be a way to correct the deficits.
Jasper
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| (...) Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I'm having trouble getting my head into the space you're describing. Let me try a different example to see if I understand your position: Suppose someone is in the process of stabbing you in the chest with the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Sorry, I've been gone for a week. I had to go back and read what I was talking about to address this. (...) It's much easier for you to do what you want with it that way, right? (...) Well, first, it was kind of a flippant remark, and second, no. I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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