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From: mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Message-ID: <730@hou2h.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 08:53:30 EST
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> > >> **********  FREE BERNHARD GOETZ ! ! ! ! ******************************
> > >> ********** (and give him more bullets)  ******************************
> > >
> > >No, let him have a long conversation with the guy he paralyzed (a pretty
> > >severe punishment for an attempted mugging).
> > 
> > Lets talk about the guy he paralyzed.
> > Would he have ever contributed positively to society ?
> > Do you normally walk around with sharpened screwdrivers ?
> > I think he should have killed all 4. People (People ?) will then think
> > 	twice before mugging, killing, raping .....
> > 
> > Next, Why don't the 4 have jobs ? What were they doing on the subway
> > at that time ? 
> 
> Nah, lets not just kill them.  Let's torture them to death.  In fact, why
> don't we kill their families while we're at it?
> 
> Genocide is not an answer to crime.

I will be the first to agree that genocide is not the answer to anything,
I am just saying that, after the fact, what is the net loss to society.

							Mark