From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Thu Nov 26 1998 - 01:16:14 MST
Someone wrote:
|"Is the Death Penalty Extropian?"
Someone else <Dick.Gray@bull.com> wrote:
|Absolutely not! Being an initiation of force, it's inconsistent
|with the non-aggression principle. We can certainly find extropian
|means of dealing with violent offenders, means that don't entail
|our becoming murderers ourselves.
Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:
|The force was initiated by the murderer, so it is not inconsistent.
|As stated previously, by definition the death penalty is not
|murder.
We should avoid to become like those we oppose.
Two wrongs do not make one right.
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