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- From: kwh@CS.CMU.EDU (Kevin Hartmann)
- Subject: Re: Ps-0 RWs-8/thoughts (NON-HOCKEY POST)
- In-Reply-To: 's message of 17 Nov 92 06:09:33 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:07:56 GMT
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- Gerry Gryschuk writes:
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- > *If* Quinn actually raped this woman and *if* Lemieux,Tocchet or Errey had been
- > able to stop it the only thing they have to be held accountable for is their
- > innaction, their own fidelity(or lack there of) shouldn't be in question here.
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- I'm not sure what you mean by 'held accountable', but to paraphrase
- Supreme Court Justice Scalia (referring to US law):
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- Our laws are written to persuade a person not to do wrong -
- not to punish a person for ignoring his natural propensity
- to do good.
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- Scalia sure is an optimist about us humans, isn't he?
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- Anyway... If Mario had prevented the one girl from helping her friend, then
- he would be aiding and abetting a crime. If he just sat and watched, I doubt
- that he could be convicted of anything. Legally he is not 'doing wrong',
- ethically he is.
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- Kevin
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- p.s. I wonder if the story would have made headlines had Mario intervened
- on the alleged incident. He could have come out of this looking
- really good.
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