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Article #1262Re: Keep Elian from the brainwashing in Havana Re: Elian: Send The Boy Home!
From: Tiny Human Ferret
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 00:00
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Ivan Zlatnik wrote: > > In article <391B85BA.167EB0E7@clark.net>, > Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> wrote: > > Argument by exceptional analogy expostulated as proof of another > > exception isn't generally accepted as a logical demonstration. > > I think the point made by someone was that because a certain suspected > perpetrator was dead, we will never know if the crime was committed. I > considered being an adult and making the point that that simply wasn't > the case and that we don't need a living perp to determine certain > things...but heck, it being usenet and a sunny day outside, i decided > what the heck.... I will have to accept the "sunny day defense". Actually, there's the interesting disconnect, essential under our system, between actual facts in the real world and what one may say "to be legally shown to have occurred". What I mean is that there may be genuine guilt in reality which doesn't "legally" exist. It's a fine distinction but it's probably saved as many innocents as the reverse approach has convicted the guilty. Dead criminals may never be tried and thus not be legally guilty, but then there's the verdict of History as well as the verdict of the courts...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115469,7f073e921835d714 X-Google-Attributes: gid115469,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,7f073e921835d714 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,a8398a72aed6996e X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public From: Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> Subject: Re: Keep Elian from the brainwashing in Havana Re: Elian: Send The Boy Home! Date: 2000/05/15 Message-ID: <391F82C4.41C67EA6@clark.net> X-Deja-AN: 623478736 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8c3hoh$23o8$1@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com> <38E6DE70.40A34EBE@nospam.com> <390BA851.E0E53C@bellsouth.net> <390C20F7.A71BCC6D@bellsouth.net> <hamilton-3004001114060001@host-209-214-117-127.bna.bellsouth.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004301143010.23433-100000@spock.peak.org> <hamilton-3004001440300001@host-209-214-119-149.bna.bellsouth.net> <390CC716.D44@hotmail.nospamcom> <hamilton-3004001759250001@host-209-214-116-35.bna.bellsouth.net> <390D7B4F.4C8D@hotmail.nospamcom> <hamilton-0105000807000001@host-209-214-119-82.bna.bellsouth.net> <391A3BB2.E7D892C2@olg.com> <391ABA5D.BF39DD93@gats-inc.com> <958061733.397087@pizza.crosslink.net> <8ferk4$g3s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <391B85BA.167EB0E7@clark.net> <8fhsrq$ro5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@skycache.com X-Trace: news.skycache.com 958365868 18717 208.184.7.102 (15 May 2000 04:44:28 GMT) Organization: ? Not a concept I often entertain. Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 May 2000 04:44:28 GMT Newsgroups: va.general,dc.general,soc.culture.cuba