Well, we have one thing in common; we're both
athietsts.
Patrick
--- Robert Elkin <
rictusaporia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Oh, please.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com>
> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 6:14:43 PM
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Two buck
books
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> I realize that all of us here love to
> read about
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> murder. It's pretty much all I read and write
about.
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> On the other hand, murder actually does happen
and
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> when it touches lives words like "emotions"
and
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> "intelligence" and "fairest" ring pretty smug
and
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> hollow. Imagine a family like Sharon Tate's who
for
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> the last 40 years have made it their main purpose
to
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> go the parole hearings of all 5 of the
people
>
> convicted of killing their daughter and sister
just
> so
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> the American Government doesn't FORGET what they
put
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> those people in prison for and let them out with
the
>
> rest of us. Should an American family have to
live
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> like this? A pregnant girl was brutally
murdered,
> the
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> people who drove the knives into her body are up
for
>
> PAROLE and you're lecturing me about "fairness."
I'm
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> not looking for emotional satisfaction. I'm
not
>
> looking for revenge. I'm looking for a
total
> solution
>
> to a very specific problem once and for
all.
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> Patrick King
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> --- Robert Elkin <rictusaporia@ yahoo.com>
wrote:
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> > Probably not, but that's a big DNF in terms
of
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> > argumentative discourse. Being civilized/social
is
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> > all about controlling the impulses with
the
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> > intelligence, finding the best & fairest
(not
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> > necessarily the most emotionally satisfying)
ways
> of
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> > dealing with problems.
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> > Or it's all about teacake & jam. I don't
really
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> > remember with certainty.
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> > Rob
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> >
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> > ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Patrick King <abrasax93@yahoo.
com>
>
> > To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com
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> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 6:58:24
AM
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> > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Two buck
books
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> > I wonder if you'd be as objective if
> the
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> > victim was
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> > your mother or daughter?
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> > Patrick King
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> > --- rictusaporia <rictusaporia@
yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > Personally, I prefer the tigers & dogs
to those
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> > who
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> > > are presumptuous
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> > > enough to think that the simplistic
machinic
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> > > application of brutal
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> > > force to any symptomatic human expression
of
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> > social
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> > > ills is a thing
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> >
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> > > that can be morally justified (or
called
> "human").
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> > > Rob
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> > > --- In rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com,
Patrick
> King
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