[RedStateRocker]

No, it isn't. That punk Skilling is exactly the equivalent of someone who holds up a 7-11; the negligence or lack of wisdom of the person they damage has *NO* bearing on the immorality of their action. There is an assumption of risk inherent in many if not most actions, but that does not exclude a CRIMINAL from full and complete liability for ALL of the consequences of their actions. Any and every thief should get a sentence proportionate to what they stole or damaged. I think he, as with all criminals, should be required to labor as a slave until everyone damaged has been made whole.

[wideawake]

That punk Skilling is exactly the equivalent of someone who holds up a 7-11; the negligence or lack of wisdom of the person they damage has *NO* bearing on the immorality of their action

Skilling is a thief and a con artist. He is not a murderer.

And sorry, circumstances really do matter.

If someone goes to a 7/11 at 1 am with $100 in his pocket and gets robbed, it's a shame but you can't say the guy was stupid for going to 7/11.

If someone goes to 7/11 at 1 am with his entire life savings in cash in a paper bag, then he is a moron who is begging to get taken.

It doesn't exonerate the thief who takes the paper bag, but the fool who brought the paper bag shouldn't cry and whine about it - and he should especially not cry and whine that his fellow taxpayers should replace the money he stupidly lost.

Yet that's exactly what the moron employees of Enron were asking for.

think he, as with all criminals, should be required to labor as a slave until everyone damaged has been made whole.

Instead, we'll be paying $70,000 a year to keep Skilling idle for 24 years, earning no money that can repay anyone.