[TheForge] Responsibility

[terry l. ridder]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Saint Phlip wrote:

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so to paraphrase your long posting.
the person instead of reporting the theft to the owner of the chemicals
should have asked the thief to return the said chemicals to the rightful
owner. do i have the correct?

that is the most stupid logic i have ever heard.

using your logic: if some has knowledge of any crime they should approach
the criminal and reason with the criminal about the crime said criminal
has committed instead of going to the proper authorities and reporting
the said crime. that is a good way to end up dead.

i do realize there are those cases where it is not clear who the good
and bad guys are , one example the chicago police department. the police
in chicago are the dope dealers and the thugs. they particularly like
beating up people in bars. google news chicago police department 
in those cases i would recommend the next level of authority.
the county sherif or the state police.

i personally think the person in question got off extremely light.
whoever, reported the incident, could just have easily reported it
to the fbi tip line or the department of homeland insecurity.
be reasonable a list of chemicals like that is going to raise
eyebrows in this new age of war on terror.
there are numerous examples of home grown terrorists.

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