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To: jwalsh07
You seem to think motivations are actionable

I, of course, neither think nor said any such thing. No amount of desire to put a false label on a science textbook, and than lie about its supporting material in court is actionable. Only doing so is actionable. Motivation however, is, and ought to be dispositive in the law. Or, to re-iterate my example, do you think a child who kills his playmate accidently ought to be punished for the same crime in the same manner as a mob killer?

2,589 posted on 12/23/2005 4:48:32 PM PST by donh
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To: donh
Or, to re-iterate my example, do you think a child who kills his playmate accidently ought to be punished for the same crime in the same manner as a mob killer?

Of course not but your analogy is hopelessly flawed. First of all I said you seem to think. And second of all I said that motivation absent action is not actionable. In your flawed analogy there was action.

When the Dover school board says that ID is OOL theory and OOL theory is a discussion for the family, it doesn;t matter what the motivation is. The action was to keep ID out of science class and remand it to the home.

Those are facts, not analogies.

2,591 posted on 12/23/2005 4:55:11 PM PST by jwalsh07
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