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From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Too many laws.
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 21:56:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 21:56:52 1985
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh

> One word which I've seen rarely come under discussion in conversations about
> our legal system is ``punishment''.   ... if one wants to get people
> to engage in activities like cooperation, building, and social
> responsibility, and not ones like murder, rape, and lying, you'd be better
> off reinforcing the former than punishing the latter. 

Our public schools spend 19 years teaching coop., character building, etc.
Our judges nearly always give first offenders a second chance.  Our jails
keep those that 19 years and a second, third, or fourth chance didn't help
from destroying the spirit of cooperation, character, and social responsibility
of the rest of us.