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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: \"Why not send the men home?\"
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 20:47:36 EDT
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>> a curfew.  My sister contends that a curfew for men should be
>> instituted as this would drastically reduce violent crime. 
>> let men out when willingly accompanied by a woman.
>>                                     Respectfully,
>>                                     Joanne Munson
>
>Your sister's reasoning and yours (since I infer from the fact that
>you posted this "respectfully" you agree with what is said) contains
>a fatal flaw.  You say that men are responsible for virtually all
>violent crimes and then make a tremendous and unwarranted jump to
>the conclusion that a curfew for men would drastically reduce
>violent crime.  Tsk, tsk.  Didn't you learn anything in school?
>Fact:  Men are responsible for virtually all violent crime.
>Fact:  Violent crime should be reduced where reasonably possible?
>>From this, your conclusion is:
>Men should be kept in at night??????
>Nonsense, the correct conclusion, since the statistics you quote say
>nothing about when violent crime is committed, is:
>Men should be kept home. Period.
>
>Respectfully submitted {:-)}
>Mark Modig

	Your reasoning is flawed too, Mark. Statistics also show that
domestic violence is the most common sort. Therefore: men should not be let
*into* their homes. :-).

Kenn Barry