On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:38:02PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:10, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy is "he stole a candy so we won't
> > > allow him in a sweet shop".
> > If so, the usual punishment for stealing a candy is to be lectured about
> > it, told the right way to behave, and to pay the dollar or so it would've
> > cost, not to be forbidden from ever entering a sweet shop again.
> In the UK there is a common policy of banning delinquent children from the
> center of town (the shopping area).
May I ask how many children are declared delinquent after stealing their
first candy bar? I assume we're going to move onto the poisoning children
analogy, or the grafitti one, or something else now.
(We ought to require analogy licenses.)
Cheers,
aj
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