At 1:30 PM -0700 7/5/01, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Sampo Syreeni wrote:
The difference is that most of the people around here seem to be arguing from the societal point of view. (Cheap) parole, even if sheer bliss for the felon, is a bad thing when thought about with due respect to what it does to whole communities.
Yes, that's correct. I am arguing against that collectivist viewpoint.
Oh, puh-leeeze! My argument is not a collectivist viewpoint. It's just like any argument that drug laws are bad. (Being one of those who doesn't use drugs, and who never has, honest!, is any argument from me that drugs should not be illegal a "collectivist viewpoint"?) Ditto for thousands of other examples where the societal and legal and ethical implications dominate. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns