Most of a nation on probation?

[Tim May]

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


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