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To: defenderSD

Execution for meth dealers/manufacturers. It'd be a kindness to them and everyone else. They've given up their humanity.

Using your logic, since every law can be abused, there should be no laws or punishments whatsoever. I don't agree.

It's akin to the logic of "people will do drugs/have abortions/commit murder anyway, so no use having laws against such things.


562 posted on 09/01/2005 6:48:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: little jeremiah
"Using your logic, since every law can be abused, there should be no laws or punishments whatsoever."

I said no such thing and that is not my logic. I said that execution was an over-reaction, an excessive punishment, for drug dealing and such an extreme punishment would give corrupt drug enforcement agents too much power. There's always a correct balance between insufficient and excessive punishment for a crime. I never said there should be no punishment for drug dealing or that punishment should be reduced. You have every right to disagree with me, but please make a coherent argument and don't try to twist my words around into something I never said.

571 posted on 09/01/2005 7:28:23 PM PDT by defenderSD (At half past midnight, the ghost of Vince Foster wanders through the West Wing.)
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