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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
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 10:56:25 1984
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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