Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Too many laws. Message-ID: <604@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 21:56:52 EST Article-I.D.: aluxe.604 Posted: Mon Jan 7 21:56:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 04:14:37 EST References: <2677@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 14 **** **** 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.