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>you brought in the race thing, not me. do you have any particular issue,
>rather than this beat-up meta-issue, that you would like to address?

>-- 
>Scott Probst: Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, Psychology dept, SFU
>              Graduate Issues Officer, Simon Fraser Student Society.
>e-mail: probst@fraser.sfu.ca - ph: (604) 291 3354/3181 - fax: (604) 291 5843
>              "yes, well, and here we go again..." - Dr H. S. Thompson

OK, how about this one:

One of the strongest ethical arguments against capital punishment is that
it involves society committing the same crime that the accused individual is
supposedly guilty of.  Thus capital punishment is a revenge taken by society
against a criminal for the act(s) he has committed as opposed to a deterrent
against this crime.

Why is it that so many members of the `cultural left' who support the above
argument are also quite willing to support reverse discrimination, which in
effect punishes one generation for the sins of its parents, and which does so
by committing the same crime against individual human rights?

(Answer: it's cheaper to do it that way than to actually spend the money on
education).
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