Re: Heavy penalties on drug couriers make no sense

Jasbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> On 4 Oct 2003 18:26:21 GMT, La Maline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
>>Jasbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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>>> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:43:11 +0100, "half_pint"
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>What about all the men in prison?
>>>>Are you a lesbo?
>>> 
>>> These are not my articles. I just post interesting stuff - sometimes
>>> by prohibitionists, sometimes by reformers.
>>> 
>>> I agree with your point though - I found myself thinking while
>>> reading this:- if women commit crimes they're seen as victims but if
>>> men do the same they're seen as perps - it's a double standard that
>>> is common in liberal-Guardian-reformist circles. 
>>> My own view is that there
>>> should be set penalties for all crimes which are universally
>>> enforced no matter what the circumstances of the perp are - no
>>> mitigating circumstances at all.
>>
>>So rather than the "liberal-Guardian-reformist" stance, you opted for
>>the right-wing-nazi-silly-old-fart stance.
> 
> By no means. I think you'll find that justice would be fairer if
> penalties were universally enforced - "fine upstanding citizens"
> [translated as 'middle-class white folks'] would get the same justice
> as unemployed ghetto scum.

What would be "fair" about a man or woman who had been abused for years, 
being beaten and bullied until he or she snapped and murdered their abuser, 
getting the same "justice" as some kid stabbing a pensioner for the hell of 
it?