From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:43c810d6{at}w3.nls.net...
> Robert G Lewis wrote:
>> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
>> news:43c80cda$2{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>"Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote
>>>in
>>>message news:43c80648{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>>George Sherwood wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:28:38 +0000, Adam wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>They may be. Doesn't change a single thing though.
If a Gov legalizes
>>>>>>mass murder that must be OK coz hey it's legal.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>What it means is that in Adam's world (and the world of
most of the
>>>>>leaders of Europe) people who are not enlightened and
believe in such
>>>>>things, just plain aren't smart enough to be left to
those type of
>>>>>decisions. Really simple.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Nope. It means that the state should not stoop to murder
coz murder is
>>>>wrong. Hey if murder's OK then let the people know so
everyone can have
>>>>a go.
>>>
>>>Plus, of course, there's no meaningful appeal once the sentence is
>>>carried
>>>out.
>>>
>>>The Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six suffered (and one died in goal)
>>>but at least we could eventually put things half right.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Which are very good arguments against the death penalty but do not make
>> the
>> death penalty murder.
>>
>> Bob Lewis
>>
>>
> It is murder. It is just murder by the many. Most lynchings also never
> get punished for the same reasons. The people who killed those US
> contractors in Fallujah were not commiting murder coz the people around
> them supported what they were doing.

Mob rule vs. rule of law. Minor difference.

>
> If enough people do something it stops being a punishable crime. That
> doesn't mean that tying someone down to a table & injecting poison into
> them isn't murder.
>
> Adam

It doesn't mean that is automatically murder either.

Bob Lewis

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