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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: NYC subway "hero"
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:34:18 EST
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In article <912@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) writes:

>Gee, I'm getting confused.  Are the punks the heros (martyrs),
>then?

Of course not.  The question being raised is whether their crime was great
enough to make them deserve a session in the intensive care unit (last I heard
one of them is getting worse).  This is called "appropriate punishment."
Presumably you don't cut your kids' hands off for bad table manners...
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	Geoff Kuenning
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