Law in Contemporary Society

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AnjaHavedalThirdPaper 9 - 22 Jul 2009 - Main.AndrewCase
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What appears below is a complete overhaul of my third paper, elaborating on the one interesting idea in my first draft and getting rid of the rest. As of mid-July, it is still something of a work in progress.
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 We do bad things for many reasons, and ‘profit’ is usually the least of them. Genocide is not profitable – you can steal someone’s bike without killing them and their family. This school is trying to teach us to see everything through a cost/benefit/economic lens; we are not required to succumb.
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<		I agree with your insight law is not always based on moral certainties, but is created by humans. There are wise ways to proceed from here without growing the criminal law. Has the ICC found any genocide perpetrators who wouldn’t have done it if they thought they’d be punished more severely if caught?
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>		I agree with your insight that law is not always based on moral certainties, but is created by humans. There are wise ways to proceed from this conclusion without growing the criminal law. Has the ICC found any genocide perpetrators who wouldn’t have done it if they thought they’d be punished more severely if caught?
 On a micro level, I’d ask you to think seriously about paying your train fare. In theory, New York imposes significant penalties on turnstile-jumpers, as you advocate. In practice, theft of service arrests are just another means by which the state supplies young black men with longer criminal records than their white peers. Once we give the state the power to regulate our lives by threatening to punish us, we don’t always control how the power is used.

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