[HiTech RedNeck]

If so, "the law is an ass."

Quite so. Late-recalled anecdotes of hearsay are much too slender a reed to bear the moral weight of ceding the right to life. The kind of anomic autonomy that dlds so learnedly cheers is from the pit of hell. Who cares if there's lots of "precedent": it's just like your example of the finely German engineered train carrying the victims to Auschwitz.

[msmagoo]

"Late-recalled anecdotes of hearsay are much too slender a reed to bear the moral weight of ceding the right to life."

Well said!