[Peace-discuss] for more clarity on this issue

[John W.]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:47 PM, LAURIE <LAURIE at advancenet.net> wrote:

Under today's culture, I think that the notion of "crimes of passion" needs
> to be broadened to include not just those committed without any rational
> thought on impulse as it were to those committed with premeditation using
> patterns of thought which employ forms of logic which deviate from what we
> term rational or reasonable logic.  For instance, the gang member who gets
> in an argument with another member of their gang and leaves to go home to
> get a gun so as to come back to kill the other gang member because that gang
> member injured the pride or reputation of the gang member who went to get
> his gun.  In the eyes of that gang member, he is defending his reputation
> and good name, which to him is the only possession he really owns (much like
> a traditional white working and middle class person's view of personal
> private property like their house); and any means is justified to achieve
> the ends where life and death are no big thing but reputation is everything.
>

So Laurie, you're suggesting that the penalties for such crimes should be
reduced?  :-)  You will recall, of course, that "crimes of passion", whose
definition you are proposing to ENGLARGE,
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