Re: Apple IIe seen in Discovery Channel documentary "2057: The Body"

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:44:22 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote
(in article <x9mdnYFjAJu2M9XbnZ2dnUVZ_h-vnZ2d@comcast.com>):

> I agree with all this, but would like to point out that the state
> (at least over here) is just the expression of what most people
> agree with.
> 
> So the ability to move away from capital punishment as a state
> policy means being able to convince most people that it is an
> inappropriate policy.

Wouldn't you say this all depends more on resources than morals? In a village 
with 15 productive adults, can you afford to devote four of them to securely 
guard, care for, and feed a member bent on killing? Obviously not.

Likewise, by what right do you claim a portion of my productivity to maintain 
the life of a person convicted of murder?

There are choices. If personally fear false conviction, there is Australia, 
New Zealand, etc. If on the other hand, you fear in the abstract that someone 
else may be falsely convicted, start a defense fund. 

I find the risks in the current social contract acceptable, with the 
exception of the surplus of hungry lawyers and folks who don't understand the 
balance of power in the Second Amendment.


-- Charlie Springer

BTW, someone mention some Star Trek/Commie philosophy of the needs of the 
many outweighing the needs of the few. The U.S is founded on individual 
rights, not groups. The political battle against the tyranny of the majority 
has been waged ever since.