From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Jun 13 07:42:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5477 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 14:40:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Jun 2000 14:40:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 14:40:52 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06846 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:41:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006131441.KAA06846@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] le/lei/la/lai ... Brutus & the rest In-Reply-To: Message from John Cowan of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:36:22 EDT." <394646E6.C198AB06@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:41:10 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell John Cowan writes: >"Alfred W. Tueting (T|ting)" wrote: > >> I'm wondering if there is a (concise?) Lojban way to be precise with >> regard to legal purposes (I'm thinking here of criminal law): >> E.g. Brutus and the rest killed Caesar. Using /le/la/ implies that >> the one or all I have in mind (i.e. each single one) committed the >> crime of stabbing a person named C. (from context here: the same >> person in one event). That's okay here, because each one was >> using his own dagger ;) > >But even if not, it wouldn't have mattered legally: aiding and abetting >is just as criminal, in both (English) common law and (Roman) civil law, as >actually stabbing. Umm, last I checked, the sentences for the one were rather less severe than the sentences for the other. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_