(June 13, 2015 at 5:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ...
Fair play, though. Here are some of the idiotic laws I grew up with. In Northern Ireland:
-The penalty for suicide was death by hanging.
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That seems like a great law. If someone screws up, the government helps them succeed!
(Or do you mean, that it is the penalty only for those who were successful in killing themselves?)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.