<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Communism</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Jealosy and hatred are of course emotions, which cannot be dealt with legally in any case.<br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Sure they can. You can't stop people from feeling them. But you can prohibit them from acting on them in a destructive way. jks</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>"prohibit"?  Your "prohibit" is an empty word without effective</div> <div>deterrence (and "prohibitionism" can be defined as the propensity</div> <div>to pass a law against anything you don't like and give exemplary</div> <div>punishment to a very small percentage of those who persist in the</div> <div>"prohibited" behavior).  But deterrence can never be effective,</div> <div>even in the smallest degree, except against those who attempt a</div> <div>rational calculation of the expected cost/benefit ratio for the</div> <div>"prohibited" behavior.  The whole point is that *hatred* and</div> <div>*jealousy*  are extremely powerful and extremely irrational</div> <div>negative emotions.</div> <div><br></div> <div><i>What "prohibition," pray tell, would deter an Iago from destructively</i></div> <div><i>acting on his hatred for Othello, or deter an</i> <i> Othello from destructively</i></div> <div><i>acting on his jealousy of Desdemona?</i></div> <div><i><br></i></div> <div>Shane Mage<br> <br> "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.<br> </div> <div>When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. Weiner)</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>