[ltp] Moving windows

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:40, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:

> > 2)It's morally legal to do this, but the technicalities are murky.
>
> What is "morally legal"? Those two words exclude each other. ;-)

I don't think that's so - the NAZIs were careful to pass legislation allowi=
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them to act on the Jews, Gypsies, etc., in order to (attempt to) placate=20
International sentiment.  It was legal.  (This is true.)

But was it moral?

Everything Saddam Hussein did was legal - he was the law in Iraq.

It was legal to hang people for stealing a loaf of bread in England in the=
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1700s - was it moral?

A jury is a last check on law making - the people the law is applied to - "=
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jury of his peers" - decides whether to apply it or not, so that the people=
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who write the laws can't use them to enforce tyranny that the people don't=
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agree with.

Cheers,
Bret

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