In article , Jonathan Ganz
wrote:

In article ,
Peter Wiley wrote:
In article ,
katysails wrote:

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No. I want us to follow the rule of law and respect the majority view.

Ah, but what about those minority rights? You seem to have forgotten
about
them quite conveniently.

Since Jon wants people to follow the rule of law and respect the
majority view, Jon supports capital punishment.

I used to, but now I don't. I think it's much more cruel to force
someone to live in a tiny cell for the rest of their life.

Actually I agree with you but the risk is that someone will let them
out again. Aren't you guys about to repeal the 'three strikes' law? I
know it's resulted in jailing a lot of people who are plain stupid
rather than dangerous but the idea, applied to people who commit crimes
of violence, has a lot of merit IMO. I recall seeing stats somewhere
(and we all know what they say about stats...) indicating the majority
of crime was committed by the same small group of the population.

PDW