"Theo Bekkers" <
[email protected]> wrote in
news:FusVa.21688$OM3.6916 @news-server.bigpond.net.au:
> "Trevor S" wrote
>
>> I disagree vehemently, the outcome is the important issue, not how
> it was
>> achieved.
>
> Suppose you were trimming your hedge and you carelessly let a branch fall on the footpath, someone
> walking past just at that moment trips on it, does a spectacular cartwheel and lands flat on his
> back unhurt. A passing bus driver witnesses this and his attention is distracted for a secvond,
> bus runs into a tree and 20 people die.
>
> Do you expect to be hung for the outcome?
Hung ? No, as I said , the outcome is important, I am agin' the death penalty, as it kills people.
In the instance you explore, the bus drive killed 20 people through direct neglect, to me it is
fairly black and white example.
> Should the bus driver be hung for the outcome?
No
> Should the pedestrian be hung for the outcome because he wasn't looking where he was going?
No.
> Shall we hang them all?
No
> I suspect the driver will be punished for your carelessness and that you will receive no blame.
because there is none to assign, unless you want to blame the drivers mother for giving birth, how
far down the blame ladder do you want to step ?. Seems blatantly clear to me in your example the bus
driver killed 20 people in your example, your mitigating circumstances amoutn to nothing more then a
fart in the wind IMO. Would you like to see te Government blamed for not training the driver
correctly, or the Police for not disqualify the driver, or the people that made the hedge cutter
blamed for allowing me to use it ? Your philisophy is seriouly flawed precisly because of your blame
transferal.
>> As an aside, the US Government has a bill before congress where this
> sort
>> of Goal time would be given to people downloading MP3's, now lets
> put
>> THAT in perspective.
>
> Nobody does that unintentionally. It is a deliberate act of theft.
Uh huh.... I think you missed my point, it is only theft because of the powerful IP lobby in the
USA, there ability to incarcerate someone for downloading an MP3 was used as a direct example of
proving the point that the law is an ass. In a world of swings and round-a-bouts putting somoen in
Goal for downloading an MP3 seems to be to be a prime example of the world gone mad.
--
Trevor S
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein
I agree it was a mistake but she took a persons life, does it matter
