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Kaufman's final argument is that drugs and drug dealing are illegal and anti-social behavior. Of course, he's right that drugs are illegal and anti-social in mainstream society, but we shouldn't wish to punish someone solely because the law says their actions should be punished. To avoid a circular justification of law, the two students must have done something that was wrong in and of itself. To figure out if the students deserve sympathy or scorn, we need to look further than coarse categorizations of drugs and drug dealers. Were they disruptive influences in the community...
Noah R. Freeman '98, a member of the council who backed the proposal, said the bill was not meant to punish cadets and midshipmen. But the expulsion of the ceremony from the Yard would be the "removal of a privilege" from a discriminatory organization...
There are people all over this world like murderer Thomas Hamilton, who think they have a right to whatever they very much want, in his case the company of young boys, and who will use whatever means they possess to punish those who will not give them what they want. The hundreds of bouquets lining the road in front of the school and filling the cathedral and churches of Dunblane, and the phone calls and letters my wife and I have received, testify that all over this world there are also kinder, gentler people. That is very good to know...
...landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace, and the creation of federal agencies to punish offending businesses added teeth to the legislation. But even with formal restraints lifted, the 30 percent wage gap between similarly-qualified black and white workers has shown no sign of closing over the past generation...
Beijing has continued to test atomic weapons, transferred nuclear-arms technology to Pakistan and sold missiles to Iran. Clinton is still deciding whether to impose certain economic sanctions on China to punish it for the Pakistan deal, as the law requires, or to waive such penalties as he has in similar circumstances. On the trade front, there is also disappointing news: estimates of the U.S. trade deficit with China range from $20 billion to $35 billion, depending on how Hong Kong transshipments are counted; moreover, Beijing has failed to vigorously enforce agreements with the U.S. that outlaw piracy of videos...