10-03-2005, 03:51 PM
whyBish,Oct 2 2005, 10:05 PM Wrote:How biased towards the offender we are over here is shown by this article:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?...bjectid=3582201
With comments from :http://capitaldiary.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_capitaldiary_archive.html which nicely point out that money spent on criminals is at the expense of those who have never committed crime:
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Whenever someone reduces a morality argument down to a question of money it short-changes everyone. (Sorry, I couldn't think of wording that avoids a bad pun. :blush: ) It may become a necessary part of the discusion but you can't truly discuss ethics and morality by reducing it down to monetary considerations.
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The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. Robert A. Heinlein