Ever notice when someone speaks to you in a foreign language that you don't understand and can only shrug, thent they scream at you louder as though that will fix the situation?
Funny thing about human nature. Current policies/laws are not stopping all instances of violations. Therefore, we MUST increase the penalties, even to the extreme point of locking people up and throwing away the key. THAT'LL show 'em!
There was a 1940's-era cartoon in which a little kid was fantasizing about being the Great White Hunter in the Amazon fighting an indigent tribe. "I hated to kill them all but they had to be taught a lesson!" Understandable 'logic' from a 7-year-old, but guess where kids learn their logic skills.
To punish current offenders for all the combined offenses of earlier offenders displays more the impotence of the administrators than any logical handling of the offense itself.
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Posted by Mike from Dallas on May 20, 2007:
Ever notice when someone speaks to you in a foreign language that you don't understand and can only shrug, thent they scream at you louder as though that will fix the situation?
Funny thing about human nature. Current policies/laws are not stopping all instances of violations. Therefore, we MUST increase the penalties, even to the extreme point of locking people up and throwing away the key. THAT'LL show 'em!
There was a 1940's-era cartoon in which a little kid was fantasizing about being the Great White Hunter in the Amazon fighting an indigent tribe. "I hated to kill them all but they had to be taught a lesson!" Understandable 'logic' from a 7-year-old, but guess where kids learn their logic skills.
To punish current offenders for all the combined offenses of earlier offenders displays more the impotence of the administrators than any logical handling of the offense itself.
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