From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Sun Jan 04 1998 - 10:01:48 MST
> Yak Wax wrote:
> >
> > Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yak Wax wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ---Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > SInce when does all crime derive from revenge?
> > > >
> > > > Revenge is justice, justice is law, crime is unlawful. No
> > revenge, no
> > > > justice, no crime, problem solved.
> > > >
> > >
> > > But not all justice is revenge, nor does all law seek to attain
> > justice,
> > > and given the existence of unenforced blue laws and the concept of
> > civil
> > > disobedience as a social responsibility, as well as all of the
> > > non-criminal regulations, not all unlawful behavior is therefore
> > > criminal.
> >
> > Can you give examples of justice that isn't revenge?
>
I have a bit more for you here. Civil law seeks to recompensation to
victims for damages incurred. THis is not revenge, merely compensation
for damages, reestablishing a semblance of the prior continuum.
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