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- From: bmc@mayo.edu (Bruce Cameron)
- Subject: Re: control
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.220047.16011@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
- References: <1992Aug23.205718.25491@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug27.200240.10656@noao.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 22:00:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.200240.10656@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
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- |>
- |> Surely you are glad for the anti-homicide laws that protect YOU, as best
- |> they can, from getting knifed and mugged on the street.
- |>
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- But the problem is they don't protect me from being killed,
- they simply allow society to extract vengence upon the person
- who killed me if and only if it can be proven that that person
- actually did the killing.
-
- Laws don't prevent action; it is hoped that the penalties
- will disuade an individual from performing the illegal
- action. However if an individual decides that the potential
- cost of an illegal action is out-weighted by the potential
- personal benefit, the law does not protect the victims of
- that action.
-
- --
- --Bruce
-
- "Truth is ultimately a philosophical concept,...,
- and standards of truth are adequate for practical
- purposes if they are substantially more reliable
- then the system undergoing evaluation"
- C. E. Metz
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