Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: CASE mis-understanding? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:24:08 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <52e54d17.461102185@news.demon.co.uk> <2014Feb13.162903@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Feb15.171430@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Feb17.150541@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Feb18.091715@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Feb18.145659@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:28547 On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:15:11 -0500, Andrew Haley wrote: > I don't think anyone has said that, any more than any bigot thinks > that someone touching a 25kV overhead line should be punished by > death: it's a consequence, not a punishment. > I wonder, how exactly did someone come about to touching the overhead line? You didn't specify why it was touched ... Was he/she/it being forced to touch, chose to touch with free will, or accidentally touched, e.g., falling, etc.? It's clear that some are a consequence, and at least one is punishment. I.e., the logic of the example is questionable at best due to undefined behaviors, specifically, why someone touched the overhead line. As such, you can't conclude it was willful, and therefore a consequence. Rod Pemberton