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- From: panon@ucs.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon)
- Subject: Re: Seattle, anyone?
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- References: <1992Aug23.174730.4306@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Aug23.203321.10023@sfu.ca> <1992Aug24.021744.4646@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Aug24.170203.27333@sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:57:48 GMT
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- >
- >you brought in the race thing, not me. do you have any particular issue,
- >rather than this beat-up meta-issue, that you would like to address?
-
- >--
- >Scott Probst: Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, Psychology dept, SFU
- > Graduate Issues Officer, Simon Fraser Student Society.
- >e-mail: probst@fraser.sfu.ca - ph: (604) 291 3354/3181 - fax: (604) 291 5843
- > "yes, well, and here we go again..." - Dr H. S. Thompson
-
- OK, how about this one:
-
- One of the strongest ethical arguments against capital punishment is that
- it involves society committing the same crime that the accused individual is
- supposedly guilty of. Thus capital punishment is a revenge taken by society
- against a criminal for the act(s) he has committed as opposed to a deterrent
- against this crime.
-
- Why is it that so many members of the `cultural left' who support the above
- argument are also quite willing to support reverse discrimination, which in
- effect punishes one generation for the sins of its parents, and which does so
- by committing the same crime against individual human rights?
-
- (Answer: it's cheaper to do it that way than to actually spend the money on
- education).
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