-Caveat Lector-
I have to jump on this one here. I think that punishing someone for the
potential to do wrong, in a case such as this, IS the right thing to do.
You mentioned that you may go out and kill someone because you feel like it
(hypothetically, of course). I think, based on that rationale, that you
should be restrained. If a person displays homicidal tendencies, as well as
an inability to understand the ramifications of their actions, then they
should indeed be kept under some sort of lock and key. If you drink, your
judgement is impaired, right? You are no longer able to understand or fully
comprehend your actions or the consequences thereof. You get behind the
wheel of a car, a very dangerous piece of machinery, and you are running the
very high risk of killing or hurting yourself and (worse) other people. You
wouldn't let a crazy person walk through a shopping mall with a loaded
pistol, correct? Yet, we see nothing wrong with letting hundreds of weekend
warriors out and about with their mental faculties no less hampered with a
far more dangerous and destructive piece of equipment at their fingertips.
Drunk drivers are a danger and a menace. If we could nip the problem at its
source, perhaps alot of lives that have already been lost (a very good
friend of mine's among them), could have been spared.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teo One Thousand [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 11:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] DOPE SUPPORTERS
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> It is hard to follow your schizophrenic posts, with talk back and forth on
> the
> issue, but I will respond thus. Driving while intoxicated is a choice you
> make, there are consequences for that choice, that you MAY hurt someone.
> I
> may go out and kill someone today just cause I feel like it, does that
> mean I
> should be restrained in my house simply for that reason? I am not
> defending
> ones right to drive drunk, because I don't want to be killed by a drunk
> driver
> any more than you do, but it is still a penalizing of POTENTIAL wrong
> which is
> nowhere supported in our system of law.
> Drugs have been assailed for years at a tremendous cost and what do we
> have
> now, more people on drugs and a worse situation. At the least stop the
> insanity of a huge military expenditure (against the Posse Comitatus
> anyway)
> to combat this and do something else. The answer does not necessarily
> have to
> be legalization, but what we have now is crap, period.
> As for registering and living in areas free from "perverts" well, that is
> something that others have tried to no good end. Since under your scheme
> whatever goes against my grain is "perverted" I should have the right to
> be
> free from all of the nefarious influences.
> I suspect you were being somewhat facetious?
> Teo1000
>
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