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Only 1000 years? Law goes way further back, and that's just what's on record. Chronological snobbery is an apt term for our tendency to assume the ancients were stupid...because we somehow are more...

To be out of step requires that we are all required to walk in step, so that is an invalid notion in this context, and a tad oppressive of free debate.

But yes, nothing wrong with having mercy...

The judge second guessed what NZ Immigration would do with the offender if convicted.. Arguably inappeopriate, arguably she should have assumed NZI would deal fairly and reasonably with the offender....

But it appears the provocation defence notions did not get eradicated, some survive and colonise the wardrobes of NZ judges. But it is nevertheless a nonsense as provocation goes out the window when...

I see how you reason ultimitsu, but need for ongoing victim care also depends on where the projectile hits. If you bring a weapon to bear on someone and discharge it, THERE you have the gravity of...