On 9 Sep, 14:55, BrianW  wrote:
> On 9 Sep, 09:07, BrianW  wrote:
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> > On 9 Sep, 07:38, Doug  wrote:
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> > > On 7 Sep, 09:00, BrianW  wrote:
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> > > > On 7 Sep, 07:43, Doug  wrote:
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> > > > > On 6 Sep, 17:48, Derek  wrote:> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:10:20 퍝, Clive 
> > > > > > wrote:
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> > > > > > >In message
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> > > > > > >Doug  writes
> > > > > > >>Which answer to the need for a level playing field and a single law
> > > > > > >>covering all killings regardless of location or weapon?
> > > > > > >So an armed police officer who shoots dead a man carrying a table leg,
> > > > > > >should get life?
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> > > > > > A surgeon who nicks a blood vessel that was hidden in an obese
> > > > > > patients fat ?
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> > > > > So is the conclusion that certain people are immune from punishment
> > > > > for killing others, due to the nature of their job?
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> > > > <sigh>
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> > > No answer then?
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> > <sigh>
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> > If you read the source I provided, you would see that you are
> > completely wrong.
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> > > > It would help if you knew even the basics of this subject on which you
> > > > like to expound.
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> > > Such as?
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> > <sigh>
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> > If you read the source I provided, you would see the basic principles
> > in the English law approach to manslaughter.
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> > > > Go and look up the leading case of R v Adomako.  There's tons of stuff
> > > > on t'internet about it - a starter for ten ishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter_in_English_law), and then
> > > > come back and we can discuss it.
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> > > So what point contained in the source are you struggling to make? Why
> > > are you so obviously evading the issue?
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> > Oh, for Christ's sake, Doug, *read the goddamn source I referred you
> > to*.  The Adomako case actually concerns a doctor (an anaethetist) who
> > was successfully prosecuted for manslaughter arising out of the death
> > of a patient in an operation he was overseeing. So, far from being the
> > case that doctors are "immune from punishment for killing others", as
> > you contend, the leading English case on manslaughter is an example of
> > a doctor being punished for killing someone.
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> > So, as ever, not only do you continue your incredible record of being
> > 100% wrong, 100% of the time, you have got it spectacularly wrong.
> > How do you do it, Duhg?-
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> No response, Doug?  I see you've had time to respond to a number of
> other threads.  Still contending that doctors are immune from
> punishment?-

Still no answer, Doug?  How strange ...