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To: sinkspur
Hmmm. So the state deciding it is wrong or right is okay with you? Well, how's this: A hundred years ago Geoghan would have been hanged in front of the County courthouse. So, I guess that was right then? But, now that the crime took place in a different time and in a liberal state, it would be wrong to kill the same criminal in the same way? In other words, justice, and right and wrong are simply a function of time and circumstance?
179 posted on 08/25/2003 4:18:48 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace ((the original))
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
In other words, justice, and right and wrong are simply a function of time and circumstance?

Legal justice also includes a COMPETENT AUTHORITY.

The Nazi who killed Geoghan was just a Nazi, a lifer who gets prison cred for taking out a weak pathetic old man.

183 posted on 08/25/2003 5:04:44 PM PDT by sinkspur (God's law is written on men's hearts, not a stone monument.)
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