Did I miss something, or are you folks now calling lefties rapists?
DDeBar
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> From: alister air <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Anarchy won't work?
> Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 12:20 AM
>
> At 13:53 25/06/99 +1000, Bill Bartlett wrote:
>
> >I think we agree that the laws don't actually prevent these outcomes,
they
> >merely punish them. I regard the deliberate killing of people as an
> >undesirable outcome and would prefer to concentrate on avoiding it,
rather
> >than punish it by killing someone else.
> >
> >The present system thus fails the test of being able to justify itself
in
> >terms of better outcomes. It creates worse outcomes.
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I've a question then.  Having seen self-proclaimed leftist types also be
> rapists and perpetrators of domestic violence, and haivng seen their
> comrades stick up for them (both male and female), what should we then do
> about such a situation?  I don't believe an anarchist society could
abolish
> such acts - people who do know better still rape.  So what do we do with
a
> violent rapist?
>
> I tend not to be a frothing-at-the-mouth lock-them-away forever type -
but
> I've seen the damage caused, and she'll be living with that forever.  And
> nothing serious happened to him.
>
> Alister