01-19-2007, 08:21 PM
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I’m guessing this, along with its obvious subsequent jokes, has been previously posted. But it’s new to me and is yet another aspect of our legal system that I just don’t get and that strikes me as awfully contradictory. Isn’t the whole purpose of being rehabilitated, then released, from prison to learn from your mistakes and be reintroduced, and make some small contribution to, society? Sites and mindsets like this make it impossible for a sex offender to move on with his life. He committed a crime, served his time in jail, and now is supposedly free. Except that he can’t get a job or even move into a neighborhood without his mistakes from the past hovering over him, preventing him from experiencing his newfound “freedom”. Why even bother letting sex offenders out of prison if you’re just going to continue to treat them like a criminal for the rest of their life anyway? For every legitimately dangerous, depraved psychotic sexual fiend out there that neighborhoods should be wary of, there are the guys that made one terrible mistake in their life, served their time, and are ready to put the past behind them. Or even worse is the 18 year-old charged with statutory rape for having sex with his 16 year-old girlfriend. My roommate went to school with a guy that is in this database, over a decade later, for that very reason. Completely fucking ridiculous.
It’s basically telling the person that nobody trusts you, we just assume you’re going to relapse and attack again, and need to warn everybody of your past crimes. Of course, there are those that will attack again and should never be trusted. But isn’t it up to the judicial system to punish these wrongdoers accordingly? Instead they release them back into society and put them in a database to give parents the illusion that their children are now somehow safer.
I’m guessing this, along with its obvious subsequent jokes, has been previously posted. But it’s new to me and is yet another aspect of our legal system that I just don’t get and that strikes me as awfully contradictory. Isn’t the whole purpose of being rehabilitated, then released, from prison to learn from your mistakes and be reintroduced, and make some small contribution to, society? Sites and mindsets like this make it impossible for a sex offender to move on with his life. He committed a crime, served his time in jail, and now is supposedly free. Except that he can’t get a job or even move into a neighborhood without his mistakes from the past hovering over him, preventing him from experiencing his newfound “freedom”. Why even bother letting sex offenders out of prison if you’re just going to continue to treat them like a criminal for the rest of their life anyway? For every legitimately dangerous, depraved psychotic sexual fiend out there that neighborhoods should be wary of, there are the guys that made one terrible mistake in their life, served their time, and are ready to put the past behind them. Or even worse is the 18 year-old charged with statutory rape for having sex with his 16 year-old girlfriend. My roommate went to school with a guy that is in this database, over a decade later, for that very reason. Completely fucking ridiculous.
It’s basically telling the person that nobody trusts you, we just assume you’re going to relapse and attack again, and need to warn everybody of your past crimes. Of course, there are those that will attack again and should never be trusted. But isn’t it up to the judicial system to punish these wrongdoers accordingly? Instead they release them back into society and put them in a database to give parents the illusion that their children are now somehow safer.