RE: Penology

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 01:52:41 MDT


At 11:52 PM 7/28/02 -0700, Lee wrote:

>Laws should be obeyed, right or wrong.

Really? Even these, were they enacted?

Law 1: Nobody shall be permitted to change his or her name, with the
exception of each married woman who is obliged to adopt her husband's surname.

Law 2: All humans named Lee, either surname or given name, will be executed
on sight, but only by legally authorized officers.

Law 3. All males over the age of 15 are legally authorized officers for the
purposes of Law 2.

Laws as strange, gratuitous and hideous as those have been part of the
legal code of your nation, I understand. Ought they to have been obeyed, on
the grounds that disobeying laws for motives of morality opens the way to
terrible consequences and the decay of the social fabric?

Damien Broderick



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