[lbo-talk] The lex talionis: senseless reason

[Shane Mage]

>..."An eye for an eye" is actually a very sensible
>principle -- not "a life for an eye," but punishment
>proportional to the wrong...

"My object all sublime

  I shall achieve in time

  To let the punishment fit the crime

  The punishment fit the crime..."(WS Gilbert)

In today's NYTimes a columnist proposes, as fitting
punishment for hackers who disseminate viruses or worms,
that they be sentenced to a lifetime using computers
with MS Windows 95 software.

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62