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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:01:10 +0200, "Taemon"  wrote:   
      
   >But if we thought that we'd want them dead! But I misremembered the quote:   
   >he said that *if* they use those powers to kill people *then* he wants them   
   >dead, which is different from what I thought.   
      
   And, as I said, Lewis's point is almost identical to that of Hutton, when he   
   said:   
      
   "The pagan Romans, like most ancient peoples and modern tribal societies,   
   prescribed the death penalty for those who killed or who harmed property by   
   witchcraft: in a system which believes in magic and has capital punishment for   
   normal murder and arson, there is no other logical situation."   
      
   Both Lewis and Hutton speak of two conditions:   
      
   1. If you believe in magic, and that there are people who kill people or harm   
   property by witchcraft   
      
   and if   
      
   2. you have the death penalty for normal murder and arson   
      
   THEN (and ONLY then)   
      
   those who kill people and damage property by witchcraft deserve the death   
   penalty.   
      
   As the song puts it:   
      
   As through this life you travel   
   you meet some funny men   
   some rob you with a six gun   
   and some with a fountain pen.   
      
   And some hit men use firearms, and others use magic spells.   
      
   The motivation is the same, the methods vary.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
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