Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sb1!sb6!bpa!burdvax!psuvax!simon From: simon@psuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Defence of lawyer on 60 minutes Message-ID: <437@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 10:56:25 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax.437 Posted: Wed Feb 1 10:56:25 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:39:36 EST References: <158@ubc-vision.UUCP> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 14 Sorry, but sometimes anger is justified. Maybe some Nazi camp guards at Auschwitz only killed a few thousand inmates instead of hundreds of thousands, and maybe Gandhi could forgive and love them. Most humans cannot. There is a point in that some crimes are especially horrible, and that some people make horrible mistakes. Still, punishment should to some extent fit the crime, not the intentions of the criminal. This principle is clearly present in civil law: if you break your neighbor's window, you pay for it, whether it was a "tragic mistake" (your daughter hit a hardball into it) or a premeditated action (your unauthorized form of protest against late parties). In the latter case, you may also be liable for punitive damages, and criminal action. js