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Re: (Re: For Robert Craig) stop whining

• Posted by simulat <simulat at INTERGATE.CA> Nov 15, 2000
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Gee Irv
Ralf posts a piece suggesting that maybe the kind of market we have for
software and music isn't such a good idea. I think he's right. No big deal.

But where do you get all this stuff about letting murderers go free? Are you
saying there is no grey area? That there's no room for discussion or
disagreement? Just black and white - good and bad. If you use software that
you haven't paid for you're as bad as a murderer?

Seems a little off balance to me - but maybe I missed something.
Bye
Martin


----- Original Message -----
From: Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: (Re: For Robert Craig) stop whining


> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Fam. Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:
>
> > In my humble opinion software and music piracy shouldn't be fought, but
it
> > should be healed & integrated. Solutions should be found, but I guess in
> > today moralistic world, it easier to point, shoot and execute (f#$ck
Bush,
> > arggg. just a typical dutch frase   than to solve a problem.
>
> Well, I suppose it is terribly wrong for us to take the moralistic view
that
> the life of an 11-year-old schoolgirl is any more valuable than that of
the
> grown man who raped and murdered her.
>
> Surely the guy who abducted, raped, and bludgeoned to death that
7-year-old
> is just as deserving of our concern as she was.
>
> Shouldn't we feel sorry for the ex-con who stabbed to death a 22-year-old
woman
> after  having been released only 3 months earlier from a 5 year sentence
on a
> previous rape charge?
>
> We should really feel sorry for the guy who shot and killed the liquor
store
> owner, because he seems to be such a slow learner. After all, he had
already
> served 9 years for burglary and assault, 5 years for theft, and 8 years
for
> murder and assault.
>
> How about the parolee who abducted and killed  a 20-year-old man
> in order to get his VCR? This parolee had already served 5 years for
> auto theft and another 2 year term for burglary of a motor vehicle.
>
> We surely shouldn't judge the guy who killed a 50-year-old female
> clerk at a dry-cleaners. She chose to work for a living, he chose to kill.
>
> How about the 20-year-old roofer who abducted and killed a 13-year-old
girl
> and a 14-year-old boy?  Wouldn't it be better to just put him in jail for
a few
> years, where he could learn some skill, such as how to kill 4 at a time?
>
> Ralf, I have a deal for you:
> You bring back that 7-year-old girl, and I'll agree that those 9 (and I
use the
> word loosly) "men" should avoid the death penalty. Or are is it only the
> criminals who "deserve" to live?
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>