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kostya, spindles was talking about drugs not adultery...
and as for death row for adultery in nigeria, i think your talking about amina lawal. from memory she was aquitted wasnt she?
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His point appeared to me to suggest that people deserve to be punished for a crime according to the law. I disagree with that point, on account of the fact that I can easily conceive of laws that are unjust. Let us suppose that the death penalty for drug smuggling is an unjust law, as we all apparently do here even spindles. Why then would we approve of the execution of Mr Ngyuen?
I am well glad to hear that she was acquitted.
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However, if you know that the law is that way, you are taking a pretty big risk doing that crime.
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Absolutely. I presume Rosa Parks (RIP) took a 'pretty big risk' when she told some white guys to get fucked so she could sit down in a bus. The question is, does the maxim you outlined:
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if you do the crime, you do the time
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Apply to Mrs Parks also?
I for one do not think that it does. Why do I not think this? Because I think that law is unjust, Mrs Parks knew that it was a crime, knew she might be punished, but did it anyhow. I can't say Mr. Ngyuen is a civil rights crusader, but his commital of a crime does not necessarily mean that he deserves to 'do the time'.