At 10:49 PM 1/13/02 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>>A much better example would be a person who's friends suffered a fall in a
>>rock-climbing accident. This person then drives at speeds well above
>>posted speed-limits to get the friend to an emergency room vs. murder or
>>grand theft.
>
>No, that would be a very bad example. No matter what reason you give for
>murdering a person or for stealing a car, it will still be considered
>illegal and you will be punished for it. Not so in your example. First,
>exceeding the speed limit is a misdemeanour, not a crime. Second, the need
>to get someone to the emergency room asap justifies exceeding the speed
>limit. No decent police officer will give you a speeding ticket for it;
>rather, s/he will probably give you an escort.
Shackling and blindfolding prisoners is not a crime in the US.
Sedating prisoners that resist just and peaceable transport is not a crime.
Preventing the death of innocent Americans justifies trivial inconvenience
on the part of some of the best-treated prisoners in human historyIndeed,
Amnesty International aught to escort them.
JDG
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