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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: Suicidal cager
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.204841.16550@i88.isc.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:48:41 GMT
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- In article <2936@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> joe@mpd.tandem.com writes:
- >if one of my family members was killed by a person like this, the last
- >thing I would want to have to endure is seeing his face around me for
- >the rest of my life. the temptation to exact vengance would be to great
- >anyway.
-
- Well, maybe. If, say, some brain-dead drunk cager caused me to lose
- a leg or arm, I think part of any plea-bargaining that'd I'd agree to
- would include the condition that they stop by once a month, to wash
- the stump, or something, to force them to confront their responsibility.
- I sure as hell wouldn't let them forget what they'd done to me.
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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