07-10-2006, 03:27 PM | #11 |
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I realize that sometimes our citizens are going to get the short end of the stick in other countries' courts because of circumstances not in their control. I don't want any american losing a forearm because he stole an apple in a muslim coutry either(which wasn't what happened here). I don't feel like someone should skate either(which is what happened here) on a drug crime just because he is an american. Its too bad that there wasn't some sort of middle ground that could be reached. It was stupidity and arrogance that he had it there to begin with.
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Of course it isn't the same thing- it is an analogy which, by definition, is not the same thing. It is a pretty good analogy too, if you ask me. |
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07-12-2006, 03:26 AM | #14 | |
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And for Pete's sake, we weren't talking about what a guy was wanting, we were talking about what a guy was caught doing. You have not addressed this or much of anything that I've said. All you've done is switched to your missionary scenario and sat on that and somehow equated the two. Just to be clear, I said in another post in this thread(which has not been commented on at all), I think that 4 years was too long for what he was caught doing. That I would let him 'rot' was a poor choice of words. I don't want the guy to spend forever in jail. My main issue is the elitism that was involved in him getting rescued and being able to skate on the whole thing. I realize now that I didn't communicate this very effectively. Sometimes I don't write as clearly as I would like.
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I think what he is trying to say is that both are considered crimes. You may think one deserves punishment and not the other, but according to the countries where the crime occurs, both deserve punishment. The church's position, evidently, is to get people out before the heavy hand of "justice" can swoop down on the missionaries. Would you consider that to be elitism too? Why is it elitism if the government bails someone out but not if the church does? That is why I thought it was a good analogy. Carry on. |
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07-14-2006, 12:28 AM | #17 | |
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I suppose we could keep discussing punishments for car accidents applied to foreign nationals in other countries. Or we can revisit what the article(remember the article?) was about. The rich american getting busted for beinging cocaine into an arab country and escaping because of his connections. Do you feel that a rich pop star being saved by a United States Senator from punishment for a crime(which is a crime even in the US) which he clearly commited, is elitism? Do you feel that he would have gotten off if he had not been a rich pop star?
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