Re: Real- / Fantasy Space

> Downer, Chris wrote:
> >
> > > It is up to the knights to stop them. Besides I do not have a
> problem
> > > with locking up villains for an eternity. I just do not believe in
> > > capital punishment.
> > >
> >         Why?
> >
> >         Haven't you ever heard of payback?
>
> To paraphrase Delenn from Babylon 5 (which I'm sure jms took from
> somewhere else - I think I've heard something similar attributed to
> Gandhi): "An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind."
>
	So the criminal gets to keep his eye? Where's the justice in
that?