That the system would look at what I had and produce a consequence in proportion to it.

It does not do that.

It is not for that.

A criminal statute is a list, written by a legislature, of specific described acts.

It is not a measure of harm.

It is not a moral instrument and it has never once claimed to be, and the only reason I believed otherwise at forty-nine years of age is that nobody had ever made me look at one.

Dr.