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To: SirLinksalot

Mr. Dawkins spare me. When a mechanical contrivance I own becomes defective I stop using it. The same position taken with regard to criminals is that you take them out of society so they cannot re-offend.

Of course our legal system introduces debatable concepts such as rehabilitation, but in the end, we're taking them off the streets so they cannot offend for a period of time. Nothing more, nothing less.


7 posted on 10/20/2006 9:12:59 PM PDT by Felis_irritable
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To: Felis_irritable
we're taking them off the streets so they cannot offend for a period of time.

Also so they cannot pass on their genes and culture, at least for a period of time. In Darwinian terms, jail is for fine tuning the human gene pool, war is for drastic adjustment.

29 posted on 10/20/2006 9:45:39 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Felis_irritable

When and only when Richard Dawkins can show me a car that has free will, only then I might accept that Man has none.

While I await the impossible, I will continue to consider Dawkins as an ass fully responsible for his own assihness.


46 posted on 10/21/2006 12:55:51 AM PDT by John Valentine
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