News today is he can again be put to death for intending to do serious harm, sometime in the future, and for acting the way a person with that sort of intention would act, doing things that mostly in themselves anybody might do. Somebody needs to take people through a quick course in how hard it is to make any unrealized intention stick to a person. One can pretty much predict reasonable doubt here, without waiting for the evidence -- on conceptual grounds alone. (What if his bumbling betrays a disinclination to carry through to the end?)
While we're at it, what can separation of powers possibly mean? The executive has the power to nominate judges for the very best jobs in the world: jobs with good salary, life tenure, intellectual challenge, respect. And the judges who make the calls the administration cares about are in the pool for such jobs.
Posted by shea0017 at April 23, 2004 9:28 AMWhat happened to the daliy posts? I want more philosophy!
Posted by: Shane at April 30, 2004 9:36 AMWhat is possible would never have been achieved if, in this world, people had not repeatedly reached for the impossible.
Posted by: fleshlight at December 8, 2004 4:06 AM