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From: reza@ihuxb.UUCP (Reza Taheri)
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Subject: Re: Hard case #1
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 18:39:48 EST
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> 
> >Josh, when I explicitly include questions on the consequences of the
> >answers, I wish you would neither delete them from your quote nor ignore
> >them entirely.  I repeat, how can this right be written into law so as to
> >avoid unjust imprisonment of those who exercise it?
> 
> >Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
> 
> It can't.
>  
> --JoSH

   Before I begin let me tell you that I am not trying to glorify any
particular religion or convert anybody.  Islam, the religion that is,
punishes a thief by cutting his finger or arm, as some of you might
have seen on TV (:-)).  The catch is that it has to be proven that the
"thief" didn't have to steal to stay alive or feed his starving, near
death child, etc.

   You don't punish one who has to steal to avoid starvation, but
you make dam nsure that the punishment is so hard that nobody dares
abusing the law.

H. Reza Taheri
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