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   From: rgorman@block.net   
      
   On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:31:15 -0400, Josh Rambo   
    wrote:   
      
   >> WHO DECIDES?   
   >>   
   >> What if you're mistaken or simply wrong?   
   >>   
   >   
   >Who decides? Society of course. If there's a great outcry from the   
   >community when you try to prosecute the killer, then the deceased needed   
   >killing.   
      
   Now that's a dangerous road to walk.  The pivotal moment when Japan   
   abandoned democracy was when the public decided it was fine to kill   
   politicians as long as you were doing it out of sincere patriotic   
   sentiment.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)