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Re: This guy was hammering it - even by my standards!

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:41:26 -0000, "Peter Hucker" <none@spam.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:16:24 -0000, Ed Chilada <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:47:37 -0000, "Peter Hucker"
<none@spam.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:06:47 +0100, Ed Chilada <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:44:33 +0100, "Peter Hucker"
<none@spam.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:40:52 +0100, Ed Chilada
<nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:07:28 +0100, "Peter Hucker"
<none@spam.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:35:32 +0100, Ed Chilada
<nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:41:53 +0100, "Peter
Hucker" <none@spam.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
><snip>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How do you tell the difference between skill and luck?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When skill becomes kills?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Correct.  Until then he is innocent until proven guilty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd rather he was prevented from killing someone, rather than
simply
>>>>>> punished when he does.
>>>>>
>>>>> You're making an invalid assumption about someone before they've
done it.  I believe that's commonly referred to as a witch hunt.
>>>>
>>>> It's called prevention. I'd rather he was prevented from killing
>>>> someone, rather than simply punished when he does.
>>>> Do you disagree?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> You should probably hope that you're never presented with a scenario
>> that would sharply change your mind. Consider how much the death of a
>> family member wouldn't even remotely be compensated by the
>> incarceration of someone you didn't even know existed in the first
>> place.
>
>That would not change my mind.  Why would I want people to be punished who have
never had anything to do with injuring or killing someone?

They're punished for endangering lives. Let's say there's an arsonist
on the loose who keeps setting fire to old people's homes. However, in
all cases so far, the fire has been spotted early and nobody was hurt.
Do you try and prevent him from repeating this behaviour, or do you
wait until he kills someone and then punish him retrospectively for
doing so?

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