This Actually Pisses Me Off...

[gaybucks_chip]

I also agree. As a society, we've adopted a certain willingness to forgive. If someone has served a sentence and been released on parole or because they have completed their sentence, I have a hard time arguing that they should continue to be stigmatized for life.

Of course, for things like child abuse or rape or whatever... that's a different situation and I think those people need to be supervised more closely to ensure no one else gets harmed... but even there, the idea that no one should hire them because they have a history of criminal behavior isn't sensible. There are certainly ways in which those people can be productive members of society and not put others at risk.

[Dzinerbear]

He's paid for his crime, why shouldn't he be given another chance to sort out his life. And let's face it, most of us do drugs of what kind or other – pot, alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine, E, K – he just happened to get caught.

Michael

[Alex_Manifest_M]

After a price is paid, the debt is settled. If a lesson has been learned and behaviors changed then opportunities should be extended. If we do not allow such opportunities to occur, then we are complicit in further failures.

However, it takes direction and strong sense of self not to become lost at a young age when being directed and counseled by individuals with a lack of morals and penchant for self destruction. While allowing someone enough rope, they sometimes hang others.