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Originally Posted by Phobia
After a couple of guys swinging from a rope the rest of the thieves start thinking long and hard about their chosen profession. Somewhere along the line, we stopped holding people accountable for their actions. I won't continue to contribute to that in my life.
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If you honestly think that the severity of punishment equates to lessening the chances of crime, I think you should probably take a look at how the war on drugs has impacted rates of drug use in this country.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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