{"id":481,"date":"2005-05-26T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:10:46","slug":"the-innocent-and-the-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/26\/the-innocent-and-the-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Innocent and the Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Volokh Conspiracy – The Innocent and the Guilty<\/a><\/p>\n

This article makes a good point – about the President’s hypocrisy on death. It should be noted, of course, that I’m all for stem cell research – and the death penalty, too. At least my views are internally consistent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article makes a good point – about the President’s hypocrisy on death. It should be noted, of course, that I’m all for stem cell research – and the death penalty, too. At least my views are internally consistent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-7L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2845,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/10\/18\/desktop-madness-vol-76\/","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":0},"title":"Desktop Madness Vol. 76","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The 76th installment of Desktop Madness features... a bunch of anthropomorphic web browser icons?","rel":"","context":"In "Wallpapers"","block_context":{"text":"Wallpapers","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/pictures\/wallpapers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/browser-clubhouse-1024x733.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/browser-clubhouse-1024x733.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/browser-clubhouse-1024x733.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6486,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/09\/22\/empathy-for-the-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":1},"title":"Empathy for the Dead","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's funny how the people who say that empathy is bad and will be the downfall of western civilization turn around and demand that everyone else show empathy to one of their own who espoused those views most loudly and then was killed by one of their own who took\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":652,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/26\/schneier-on-security-man-arrested-for-being-a-computer-nerd\/","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":2},"title":"Schneier on Security: Man Arrested for Being A Computer Nerd","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce Schneier links to another chilling story of security gone too far.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2766,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/08\/20\/acer-aspire-one-life-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":3},"title":"Acer Aspire One: Life So Far","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Taking a look at the Acer Aspire One D150 after living with it for a few weeks - and the verdict is good!","rel":"","context":"In "Gadgets"","block_context":{"text":"Gadgets","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/gadgets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The truly AWESOME look of Ubuntu Netbook Remix","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-300x175.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5832,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2022\/10\/31\/the-red-death\/","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":4},"title":"The Red Death","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"An especially relevant poem for These TimesTM in which we live. You can read the whole thing here, but I especially like the final paragraph: And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. 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