-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 2/4/99 12:05:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< You
wouldn't let a crazy person walk through a shopping mall with a loaded
pistol, correct? >>
This is not a valid argument IMO. Besides I would submit that there are
plenty of people who are crazy who walk around all the time with a loaded
weapon and DON'T shoot anyone. Should they all be punished simply because
they MIGHT do something wrong? The POTENTIAL for crime is not a sufficient
reason to charge illegality against someone. Remember that during the end of
the 19th century and the early 20th century the people in charge thought it
was "best" that certain people not breed because they had the "potential" to
have children who were deformed, and etc. Thus they rationalized their
arguments for sterilization, which they subsequently carried out.
Mind you I am NOT saying it is necessarily saying it is a good thing to drive
drunk, just pointing out the ridiculousness of laws that punish for potential,
not for action.
Teo1000
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