----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Gulags
> Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > At 11:31 PM Friday 6/10/2005, Dan Minette wrote: > > > > > >> 2) The treatment of prisoners in our regular prisons. Prison rape > >> is > >> winked at by government officials on both sides of the aisle. > >> There > >> is no national outrage concerning this. You may think it is an > >> outrage, as do others of us on this list, but it really is off the > >> radar. > > > > > > In fact, the whole topic is treated as fodder by comedians. And > > many > > otherwise reasonable people think it is no worse than many of them > > deserve, especially those convicted of rape or child abuse. > > > > Ahhh....so let Joe Bob Redneck be the standard by which our moral > compass is set? Part of the problem is that people who should be considered much more refined are saying that. > I find it disappointing in the extreme that people are abandoning > morality, ethics, and the rule of law in favor of excusing the kinds > of things that they know are absolutely wrong. "It happens all the > time" arguments don't impress me. I certainly wasn't making excuses for things I consider wrong. To me questions about whether something is one of the worst threats ever to our constitutional rights are different from questions concerning whether something is right or wrong. I do consider how we handle normal prisoners a greater moral outrage than how we handled Gitmo....and I'm prepared to argue why. But, I never mean to imply that, because I can show that that A is worse than B, that B becomes acceptable. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
