Quoting Tim May (tcmay@got.net): [snip]
We let murderers, arsonists, and kidnappers go free so that the prisons can be filled with people who write fanciful essays about the "Circle of Eunuchs" and those who criticize local doughnut eaters.
'Twas always thus. [snip]
Time for another Revolution and for about a hundred thousand dishonest cops and judges to face trial for and be put before firing squads.
That seems a little extreme, though you are well known for your cure-all: ``eat the useless eaters''. Are you sure such persons shouldn't instead be put in a re-education camp so they might learn something of the virtue of integrity? Contemplating four tall and largely featureless concrete walls over a span of years would teach many things. Regards, Steve -- ``In this connexion perhaps I may be allowed to utter a mild protest against one of the more recent of modern fashions. In days which are not so very remote, the most respectful criticisms of orthodox theology used to be dismissed with the retort that all unbelief is sin. Now, it seems to me, the boot is on the other leg. The whole of religion and many of our moral beliefs are apt to be dismissed on the ground that they are the product of complexes into the nature of which it would, before the present era, have been considered indelicate to inquire.'' -- H. J. Paton, ``Fashion and Philosophy''