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...jeopardize one's employment. People should not act in such ways. We have worked hard to arrive at a point where we take seriously threats to the mental equilibrium of a worker. A dignified work relationship requires reserve and courtesy. Simple human decency forbids the exercise of power to punish one who refuses to become the victim of the desires of another person. BENET DAVETIAN Montreal...
...original oppressors were still around, maybe this would be a good solution, to punish those who are at fault. However, this is not the case. This problem is a multi-generational one. Also, selecting people according to race, sex or any other innate quality is ridiculous. Ability in the field should be the determining factor, never uncontrollable primordial ties...
Many are asking: If the law cannot effectively go after the kids, can it not punish the parents? According to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, 42 states have enacted laws making parents responsible in one form or another for their children's crimes. Of those states, 17 make parents criminally liable, sometimes with the threat of hefty fines and jail time. California's 1988 antigang law is one of the toughest. The state's Parental Responsibility Act makes parents liable for inadequate supervision, with penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas...
...much prosecutorial discretion and interfere with the way parents maintain control over their households, adding more grief, for example, after accidental fatal firings. Joe Sudbay, director of state legislation at Handgun Control Inc. in Washington, says that's nonsense: "The whole point of these laws is not to punish. The point is to prevent." Do they? According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last October, unintentional deaths dropped 23% among children younger than 15 years old in the years covered by CAP laws...
...communicate better. Sia's co-captain Eric A. Reitman `99, explains the difficulty of getting the horses to know what you want them to do. He says that, "direct communication is, for the most part, impossible. We fall back on a vocabulary of reaction, we cajole, cater, condemn, threaten, punish, forgive, reward, take `face' and deal with egos and attitudes, just as one has to in a social situation with humans...