On 11/11/14 09:46, FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:
"Spike" wrote in message
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On 10/11/14 13:50, Brian Howie wrote:

I don't know why some of you just can't lighten up.

You're dealing with deep psychological motivations here, which aren't
amenable to reasoned argument. People just won't 'lighten up' because
someone asks them to, and some conditions are untreatable, like
sociopathy, which is why prisons are full of repeat offenders. Usenet
hasn't been formulated to deal with issues like this, as events in
ukra an unnc have shown.

Some repeat offenders will be those that are so dumb they repeatedly get
caught. Others may simply be institutionalised. A prison sentence is not
the best thing to put on your CV, and the more time spent inside, the
more difficult it will be to get work outside. An easy option could be
to re-offend and go back inside. Are such people sociopaths?

Sociopaths bend the world to fit their view-de-jour of it, using any
technique that might fit the purpose that they see as reasonable. The
schoolboy that knifed the teacher to death thought he was being
reasonable, for example. While any particular sociopath might want to
re-offend to get back inside, that option isn't necessarily limited to them.

I think we're getting OT for most of the groups, so I've set FUs to ukra.

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Spike

"Hard cases, it has frequently been observed, are apt to introduce bad
law". Judge Rolfe