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"Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all."
"Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried."
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If you selected "agree" to either of the above two questions from the survey, did you consider, before answering, that you would be agreeing to cede the decision making authority as to what constitutes "art that doesn't represent anything", and "wrongdoers" to unknown entities of unknown qualification and integrity, operating in the confines of unknown criteria, if they disclose any criteria at all, or adhere to what they do disclose?
I cannot support the death penalty because I am not confident that the integrity of the officials charged with overseeing the process of selecting the guilty candidates for execution, is at a high enough level to consistantly mete out justice with accuracy. The former governor Ryan of Illinois seemed to make a similar observation a few years ago. He then emptied the death row cells and suspended the death penalty in Illinois. Why are so many other governors unwilling to ask the same questions, or are willing to accept a lower level of justice and accuracy?
Do people in Illinois care more about the integrity of their justice system for capital crimes in Illinois than they do in Texas? Why was the Illinois governor going through such a different process regarding decisions on approving execution warrants than Texas governor Bush was, simultaneously, in 1999? Why is the Texas legislature still refusing to react to lessons learned in Illinois?
Does the process that leads to the "left" or the "right" boil down to the "devil" being in the "details" vs. the ends justifying the means?
Quote:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/3181720
May 13, 2005, 10:33PM
Death penalty study offers tips to Texas
Legislation that would've included suggestions fails
To minimize the risk of innocent people being sentenced to death, Texas should work to establish public defender's offices, independent crime labs and other safeguards, an organization that represents death row inmates recommends.
In a study released Thursday, the Texas Defender Service studied the recommendations of an Illinois commission appointed to study its death penalty after a moratorium in 2000 and compared them with the Texas justice system.
"Texas failed to comply with 80 percent of the best practices identified in Illinois," said Andrea Keilen, deputy director of the Defender Service and one of the study's authors.
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The process that each of us uses to conclude, arrive at a conclusion, is by it's nature, a process designed to end with the reaching of a decision. Is "left" or "right" reduced to a matter of the complexity of the decision making processes of the survey participants?
I hope others will share the thought process that they went through to answer the "abstract art" and "wrongdoers" questions. I hope that it will help us to better understand our differences of opinion and philosphy.