# Even been a legal code in history that punished criminals AND their families for the perps crimes?

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-been-a-legal-code-in-history-that-punished-criminals-and-their-families-for-the-perps-crimes/625907/35 "2012-06-23T18:47:30Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> If you want to educate yourself on the matter:
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> [Israeli demolition of Palestinian property - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_demolition_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict)
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> This describes it pretty well, from both sides of the issue.

There is no other side. People are being punished, without even due process, for crimes they didn’t commit. That is evil.

It is a human rights violation. It’s good to know you only support human rights when it is convenient.

> [@In a libertarian society...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-libertarian-society/599458/492):
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> That’s where we differ. I (and quite a few other people, including the founders of the United States) think that rights are non-negotiable. As in “inalienable”. No one can take away the man’s rights except the man himself, by his own decision.

> [@In a libertarian society...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-libertarian-society/599458/530):
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> No, that would be a violation of my right to property. See it’s that pesky “inalienable rights” issue that you’re still having a problem with.

Pesky indeed.

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