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To: Lazarus Long
If I get killed down there, does that mean I'm to blame for my own death?

It means you chose to go there. If you die there, don't blame anyone else . The killers did the crime, but you handed them the opportunity. Had you realized there was a threat, and paid attention to it, you wouldn't have to be concerned about being dead, because you wouldn't be there.

I know if I walk out into a busy highway full of fast moving cars, there's a possibility I'll get run over. But I'm wise enough to wait for a clearing, or the light to change. If I chose to walk across anyway, I would be dead. Period.

199 posted on 02/01/2002 10:44:17 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: concerned about politics
So you're saying a white cop who patrols a black neighborhood, or a Hispanic cop who patrols a white neighborhood or any of the 100's of other analogies we could come up with here ASK for their punishment?

I give up. A human life is valuable...no matter what. We could argue about this all day long, but I really don't want to, ya know? My heart goes out to his family, and a child that he will never know, and a child that will never know his father, if indeed this first email is correct.

Can we just agree to disagree on this and just *pray* that he is still alive?

216 posted on 02/01/2002 10:54:21 AM PST by DJ88
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