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From: "Jim Choate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I think that both me and Ray would NOT consider drawing pictures to be a
> > crime...
>
> Now explain WHY.
Huh? Because. I think crimes are acts that violate someone's rights.
Drawing pictures don't do that. [Even if they include yo
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From: "landon dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >I'm of the opinion that an *attempted* crime should probably be
> >punished as a crime. The question is of action, knowledge, and
> >intent, rather than result.
>
> oh no! i *attempted* to hand-draw a naked eight-year-old
> in a s
At 01:53 PM 8/22/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm of the opinion that an *attempted* crime should probably be
>punished as a crime. The question is of action, knowledge, and
>intent, rather than result.
oh no! i *attempted* to hand-draw a naked eight-year-old
in a sexually compromising position,
I'm of the opinion that an *attempted* crime should probably be
punished as a crime. The question is of action, knowledge, and
intent, rather than result.
I'm also of the opinion that people do not have the right to take
reasonably foreseeable risks with other people's lives or property,
a
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From: "Jim Choate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > That's the reason that tentative is punished (almost) as if it
succeeded.
>
> Tentative means to 'try as a trial'. I don't think this is the word you're
> looking for.
This might be a false friend; "tentative" in Romanian means "atte
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From: "Matt Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If that action was randomly shooting a gun into a crowd of people and by
> some act of God didn't actually cause the bullet to strike any person or
> property causing damage. I say yea, lock them away and a year wouldn't be
> long en
>Yes. That would be what I believe. Let's turn the question around-
>is it morally correct to throw someone in jail for a year or more for
>an action which has not caused the slightest injury to anyone based
>on the argument that the action MIGHT cause injury to someone?
If that action was rand
