[OWK]

Criminals are made to pay for the advancement of ideas that they do not share or condone.

Criminals offer moral surrender of their claim to the protections afforded by inalienable rights, when they make the decision to violate the rights of others.

[aruanan]

Criminals offer moral surrender of their claim to the protections afforded by inalienable rights, when they make the decision to violate the rights of others.

Even criminals who don't violate the rights of others? Unless, of course, you're saying that any violation of "the law" is, in itself, a violation of the rights of others. You just strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel.