On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, rad0 wrote:

>not really, equality before the law means that the law
>treats everyone the same,

That would assume that the law is perfect and perfectly applied at all
times to all individuals. Not very likely.

>there is no such thing as a quantity of 'penalty'...

Yes there is. The penalty can be quantified in relation with something,
thus it is given a value. F.ex. a democracy might consider months of
prison a value of penalty. A homeless who gets deliberately arrested to
have a roof over his head has a different view on this value.

>this is something that you are creating

Not him, someone. That's the point. Who is the someone who sets the ratio
of values in your life. Is it someone who thinks like you would or did you
lose the elections again.

Peter

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