Reply #82: Are you seriously questioning my coherency? Or coherence?

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What, really, are the odds that, if left at liberty, this guy is going to do this again -- follow this woman, or some other girlfriend of his who denies that he is a party to her pregnancy, to an abortion clinic and shoot her?

Irrevant.

He's proved by his behavior that he is a violent mama-fletcher and should be removed from society so that he doesn't victimize any more innocent people. Put him in prison; problem is as solved as it's going to get. You can't go back and make it not happen.

So, given that it is so extremely unlikely that "this crime" would ever be committed again by him (which I'm assuming you meant by "happening again") no matter what was done or not done to him, how can you assert that imprisoning him for a long, long time would be either designed to prevent or effective to prevent it?

The purpose of imprisoning him is to ensure that he won't prey on innocent people ever again.

And why are you suddenly so worried about it happening again, and yet so apparently unwilling to agree that anything be done to prevent it from happening the first time??

To quote the Firesign Theatre, that's metaphysically absurd. I cannot go back in time and do anything to prevent this horrible crime from happening the first time.

What the hell are you thinking, iverglas? :shrug: