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   From: crizzo@aol.com   
      
   On 23 Jun 2014, Barry Bruyea  posted some   
   news:7e4hq9pk1b9d4q0sokl2h98o6k2chcjhia@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:38:23 -0700, The Real Bev   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 06/23/2014 06:35 AM, Dhu on Gate wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:34:24 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> 'This was not a race. This was not a person who took a chance   
   >>>>> and drove drunk. This is not about someone who was speeding and   
   >>>>> took a risky maneuver.'   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This is about criminal stupidity.  People this stupid should not be   
   >>>> allowed to live in society.   
   >>>   
   >>> Seems to me that most of the people we have in gaol fall into similar   
   >>> categories, either by defective hardware or educational deprivation.   
   >>   
   >>You can have a rotten education and still be smart or a good education   
   >>and be stupid.  We probably don't hear much about the smart criminals.   
   >   
   > We used to have an idiot frequent poster who categorically stated   
   > Education was an indicator of intelligence. I'v always maintained that   
   > the two just don't equate.   
      
   Education is a wonderful thing, but it's just another enabling tool, not a   
   functional component of individual ability and success.   
      
   You are what you are, and you will do what you will, with the abilities   
   you have.   
      
   Some people are just plain book smarter than others, but they still hit   
   themselves in the head with a hammer every other swing.   
      
   >>   
   >>> Which is what bothers me about the "punitive" nature of incarceration:   
   >>> it's worthless to all and impairs our ability to restrict the damage   
   >>> done by idiots.   
   >>   
   >>Some people alter their behavior because of punishment;  others do not.   
   >>  For some levels of stupidity segregation is really the only answer.   
   >>Don't hurt them, just put them somewhere where they can't hurt anybody   
   >>else.  This includes the people who used to be locked up for their own   
   >>safety and the safety of others and who seem to now be the bulk of the   
   >>homeless population.   
   >   
   >   
      
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