Your views on capital punishment for rapists/pedophiles rubbed me the wrong way, but only because I think in certain cases it's a matter of illness, and I wouldn't want someone to be punished for a crime they couldn't help committing. So to speak, anyway. But in terms of stupid frat boys date raping girls, I agree.
I guess that gets down to whether there should be a required intent element in sexual assault crimes like that... if there was a required intent element that wasn't met, then they wouldn't have committed the crime... perhaps a lesser version of it.
I don't know, I'm just a first year law student.
But I agree that mental illness should change the way a person is convicted, if at all. I read this case where a clearly schizophrenic guy thought cops were aliens but still got charged with murder 1 for shooting one who approached his car.
no way. no how. never ever.idyllic___March 5 2009, 03:51:37 UTC
If you could give one gift to the world, what would it be, and why?: Successful colonization of other planets so that overpopulation and pollution can't wipe out our eggs in one basket up in here--separate planets for groups that just won't get along.
yes let's just continue the atrocious horrible heartwrenching history of colonizing people (or planets doesn't fucking matter...} and separating them into little boxes and give up on the idea that DECOLONIZATION is possibility. i'm just going to stop there because i'm furious.
Re: no way. no how. never ever.idyllic___March 5 2009, 11:39:20 UTC
because it's still one group assuming they have the right or the obligation to colonize another group/planet/whatever. what gave them right to think they are superior? NOTHING.
Re: no way. no how. never ever.vitaminceceMarch 5 2009, 16:08:32 UTC
I understand your feelings about colonization in history--there are horrible atrocities that still affect the economies and functioning of most of the former colonized nations. That is not the type of colonization I was mentioning at all
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Otherwise, a resounding yes.
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I don't know, I'm just a first year law student.
But I agree that mental illness should change the way a person is convicted, if at all. I read this case where a clearly schizophrenic guy thought cops were aliens but still got charged with murder 1 for shooting one who approached his car.
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yes let's just continue the atrocious horrible heartwrenching history of colonizing people (or planets doesn't fucking matter...} and separating them into little boxes and give up on the idea that DECOLONIZATION is possibility. i'm just going to stop there because i'm furious.
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