Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!acf4!spector From: spector@acf4.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Bastille mentality alive and well in Message-ID: <8200036@acf4.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 20:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: acf4.8200036 Posted: Thu Nov 8 20:04:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 05:39:40 EST References: <3@fluke.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:fluke:-300:acf4:8200036:000:734 Nf-From: acf4!spector Nov 8 20:04:00 1984 And the really scary part is that is seems from all indications that this is what the people WANT. I think we are on the verge of a very 'bloody' era. It will probably take public executions and the like until people realize just how sanguine we have/are become[ing]. I too understand the arguments on both side of the Capital Punishment debate, and although I agree that there are probably quite a few people in prison who """deserve""" to die, that doesn't mean it is right to kill them. David HM Spector NYU/acf Systems Group Spector@nyu-cmcl1 ...!allegra!cmcl2!cmcl1!spector (Of course these are my OWN views ..., ...) "Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is Wrong?"