X the Lost wrote:
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From: David Menard <deibu_kun@sympatico.ca>
To: Michael Noakes <noakes_m@hotmail.com>
Cc: <ffml@fanfic.com>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 3:48 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: [fanfic][R.5]Le Plus Ca Change Prt 6 [CORRECTED REPOST]
Michael Noakes wrote:
I agree with your thoughts on Ranma and Shampoo for the most part, but I do
have a few questions and thoughts of my own.
I'm not an very knowledgeable about international law, but don't both
country's expect there laws to be treated the same, so if an American went
and committed a crime in Canada then fled across the border, Canada's
government would expect America to respect there laws? This could be fanfic
cliché but don't the Amazons not recognize any other laws except their own?
Hmm. I can't really think of any case in canon off the top of my head where
the Amazons have _broken_ any laws. (Mind you, I'm not really operating on a lot
of sleep right now, so...) Customs and rules of etiquette, yeah, but laws? (This
is, of course, leaving assault and destruction of property out completely, since
as another correspondent has mentioned, nigh-on every character in the series is
guilty of that.) When they've dosed people with their "magic" herbs you could
probably make a case for that under poisoning laws, but that's only if one
accepts the premise that the herbs are magically and not chemically active. But
like I said, I could be wrong. Oh, wait. No doubt they've broken thousands of
import/export laws by bringing all those "Amazon treasures" into Japan without
the PRC's approval; nor, I suspect, did they declare them at customs... ~_^
Shampoo also didn't seem to really care if taking Ranma would hurt him or
his family or friends.
True, but hurting someone's feelings is hardly against the law, is it? Mean,
yes. Illegal? No.
I don't recall Shampoo or Cologne really showing much respect for Japanese
laws, they did use some drugs, assault, and other such things on Ranma and
other members of the cast.
See above for my response to those points.
Also wasn't the K of M given on Japanese soil, so from a non-Amazon
perspective is Ranma clear of that law as he wasn't even in an area subject
to Amazon law.
I don't think that would really hold up in court, though, as Ranma would
have received the KoM in the first place had he not been "in disguise".
Here's a point, though. If Shamps and Cologne had insisted on attempting to
administer the Kiss of Death on either Onna-Ranma or Akane, they could probably
have been arrested quite above board and legal-like, or at least would have been
required to go through extradition proceedings with the Japanese government. So,
it works both ways, I suppose.
Well, I do feel that regardless if either of them were more right or wrong
they both did things that hurt the other and no one else helped matters very
much either.
Exactly my point. Thanks for writing!
Dave Menard
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