{"id":1796,"date":"2002-04-29T15:53:54","date_gmt":"2002-04-29T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:49:20","slug":"its_not_monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/29\/its_not_monday.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s not Monday Mission, it’s Saturday Scruples!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought the Monday Mission <\/a>questions were kinda lame this week (though the effort in crafting them is always appreciated), but then I ran across the Saturday Scruples<\/a>! (Which, of course, is now being discontinued due to the busyness of the person who does it, dagnabbit.)<\/p>\n

1. You are filling out your income tax form. Do you declare every cent you are supposed to declare?<\/b><\/p>\n

Hmmmm. What are the chances the IRS would look at my blog in conjunction with an audit …?<\/p>\n

I do try to bring a high level of ethical conduct to my tax filings, and end each year with a clear conscience that I have done what I can to sift through the Godawful Mess Which Is Our Tax Code in a fair and accurate fashion.<\/p>\n

2. You find an expensive pen in a public lounge. Do you keep it?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yes, but I leave contact information with the front desk, in case someone reports it missing. (I hate expensive pens. I lose pens all the time. I’d probably take this one and stick it on my dresser for use at Important Functions.)<\/p>\n

3. A grisly murder in your area causes an outcry and a referendum on capital punishment. Do you vote to restore the death penalty?<\/b><\/p>\n

I am a firm believer in the death penalty. There are crimes for which folks deserve to fry, but that’s pretty subjective. A better argument by far is that there are crimes for which the perpetrator is too dangerous to be allowed to live — even amongst a prison population for the rest of their natural life. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, I have slowly become convinced that our judicial system, while overall pretty decently fair, has enough kinks in it, especially <\/i>in high-profile capital trials, that I’m not certain the death penalty is being administered appropriately enough with a sufficient degree of confidence. <\/p>\n

There have been too many cases, among the relatively small number of death penalty trials in this country, where there was, after decades of appeals, vindication for the accused. I don’t demand 100% accuracy. I’d like confidence it was something better than 70%, though.<\/p>\n

That being the case, I’d have to say no.<\/p>\n

If I were convinced to a moral certainty that the accused was guilty, though, and the victim was someone I loved … well, what are the chances that the police would look at my blog in conjunction with a second murder investigation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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