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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Markets Only? What Nonsense!
- Message-ID: <727841683snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 02:14:43 GMT
- References: <2936738949.0.p00004@psilink.com>
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <2936738949.0.p00004@psilink.com> p00004@psilink.com writes:
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- > No, no; a suitable term of imprisonment would probably do the job.
- >
- > But seriously: that's why we have laws -- to keep people from doing
- > things of which the society disapproves. And if people break them, they
- > get punished. Is the critique here, in effect, an anarchist one -- that
- > laws are per se illegitimate? Just asking.
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- I thought someone might have suggested sending them to school first,
- that when subsequently commiting a crime (if something nobody knows is
- an offence, or *why* it might be so offensive, can be called a crime)
- ignorance can be no defence.
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- On the other hand, there is ample evidence that like other norms and
- standards of society teaching people rather than punishing them is
- *remarkably* efficacious.
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- Yes?
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- Gil
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