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I simply disagree and really don't think we can ever approach an understanding.

To the UK way of thinking if you volunteer to get out of your head and then commit a crime, your choice to become dangerous is not a mitigating factor but an additional fault.

you are arguing from another viewpoint. That's your privilege. It doesn't make either of us right or wrong, in this we are simply prisoners of our respective cultural backgrounds.

I return to the point I made earlier : I was asked my view and I stated it. Arguing with me isn't going to convince me. I think i have made it clear that I am not susceptible to persuasion on this point, any more than you are to mine. It's different. I now know I can get wasted and create mayhem in france with impunity, but don't you do it in the UK, you may find yourself disappointed by the lack of judicial sympathy.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 06:02:04 PM EST
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It can be an additional fault on a charge of manslaughter yes.

It CANNOT be an additional fault on the charge of murder, since it invalidates the definition of murder.

This has nothing to do with cultural background, except if we consider that the statement "Black is White, War is Peace" is simply a cultural perspective.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 01:45:34 AM EST
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