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

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 03:34:50 -0700, mdj wrote
(in article <1179225290.456255.34910@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>):

> Well, the latest figures I've found put the homicide rate in the US at
> 5.9 per 100,000. Can you afford to devote 0.024%  of your productivity
> to create a society consistent with your morals? Economy of scale is a
> wonderful thing.

That is per year I assume. Most homicides are committed by young men. If you 
jail them permamently and safely and with medical care, they may average a 
jail time of 50 years. This gives 259 per 100,000 in any given year. How many 
of the 100,000 are children, non-working spouses, government employees, etc? 
I suspect you are left with less than 20,000 private sector wealth producing 
adults who support the 100,000. That leaves us with 259 jailed murderers per 
20,000 workers, or 1.475 per hundred.
 
>> Likewise, by what right do you claim a portion of my productivity to 
>> maintain
>> the life of a person convicted of murder?
> 
> By what right do you condemn me to death, if as a shareholder in a
> public company I kill and steal back from a corrupt executive the
> funds they've siphoned off for their own purposes? Why is it OK that
> such a person be punished through years of incarceration and I still
> don't see any of my money back?

 I don't equate justice with revenge or reward.

> Come now Charlie, any rights granted to individuals must also be
> granted to groups, since groups are composed of individuals.

We call those mobs, and they don't have the rights of individuals.

-- Charlie Springer