"Jim Doyle" wrote in
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"N329DF" wrote in message
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Would you kill a man if he tried to steal your car? Do you value
your pick-up over a man's life? Even if he is a ****?


in a minute. If he is stealing my truck, that I use to make my living
with,
that might have the tools I use to make a living with, and is my only
means to
get to work, then he is no more to me than a vermin to be delt with.
If
the the
criminals knew that the sentence for stealing a car was death or life
in prison, they might think otherwise. There is a reason they used to
hang
horse
thieves. A horse was a familys mean of survival, to plow the fields,
to go
into
town to get supplies, to hunt with. Today the car has replaced the
horse.

When I read this, my jaw just hit the desk. You are advocating the
concept that a life is worth less that a few material goods.

Well,HIS life is not worth MY goods,to *me*. That's what matters.

He probably would not knowingly trade his life for my goods either.
He only commits such crimes thinking that he can avoid such risks.
Eliminate any possibility of such risks,and your crimes increase.
Increase the chances of life-threatening risks,and crime goes down.
Some of the worst places for crimes in the US are where guns are
restricted.

Don't you
have third party insurance in the US? I don't mean to be rude, but
drawing a comparison to 18th century policy just makes you look even
more out of the dark ages. Someone tell me - this isn't the genuine
feeling amongst all Americans?!

So,you would simply spread the costs of crime out over everyone else,rather
then stand up and defend what's yours? How brave of you.


--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net