Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:28, Jim Choate wrote: ... If I as an individual can not decide to take anothers life at my whim (ie 'convicted' by individual ethics) how than can a group of men do it? Can a group of men have a right that as individuals they do not? No. Ergo, the state has no

Re: CDR: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Matthew X wrote: To Kill Or Not To Kill ' Surveys of criminologists and police chiefs show that substantial majorities of both groups doubt that the death penalty significantly reduces the number of homicides' All of which ignores the best reason for killing convicted murderers: that one

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Choate hails from Texas,the state with the highest rate of cold blooded state murder. Have we heard the slightest peep out of this serial spammer about this? Choate condemn the state murderers or remain a cold blooded conforming creep. Check the

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Marc de Piolenc wrote: All of which ignores the best reason for killing convicted murderers: that one will never kill again. Which leads to a ethical paradox regarding the state's murder and it's public admission of the fact, and the need of society to protect itself from