<prabbit1@shamrocksgf.com> wrote in message
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> In talk.atheism "JethroUK" <reply@the.board> wrote:
>
> > "Robert McCurdy" <robertwm@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
> > news:H8TVa.8348$9f7.973129@news02.tsnz.net...
> >> A repeat convict is by definition a criminal, who can not learn not to
> >> commit crimes.
>
> > No they aren't - they dont [want] to stop commiting - of course they
[can]
> > be taught to refrain from crime (there's a gaping difference) - there is
> > [no] incentive currently in place to deter them that's all!
>
> >> Criminal type personalities are by further definition, people who
believe
> >> erroneously that they won't get caught when breaking the law.
>
> > so remind them - you're crediting thugs with people that [think]
>
> >> Deterrents only work if there is some consideration of them.
>
> > I have considered that removing legs from the knee down would be an apt
> > punishment/deterant to joy riders - i could guarantee that joy riding
would
> > cease within year
>
> Some countries cut off the hands of thieves. They still have new thieves
all
> the time. shows how well the idea (does not) works.
>

you can never totally erase crime - just minimise it

>
> -- 
> Mike                               atheism: a non-prophet organization...
> Creation Science: an oxymoron actually created by morons...
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> Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when
you
> do criticize them, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes.
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> The multi-named one posting under rooster/bob white/sceptic and various
other
> names (identifiable by the header line reading "NNTP-Posting-Host:
12.231.81.82")
> might as well ignore this post. He is a lying, illogical troll who has
been
> kill-file'd and any posts of his will not be seen or replied to.
>