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Originally Posted by mgburg
Until you've held your own, you can't even come close to imagining the attachment you can have to something so pure and innocent.
How about having a possible "20%er" arsonist living next to you and your property?
And...I think the answer to this thread is that in the minds of most on here, the molester wasn't punished enough to begin with. Life in prison, w/o a chance for parole should have been the sentence.
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While all that is very nice, it still doesn't answer the simple question. What is your principle in this? Do you adhere to the rule that if he did his time, we have to let it go or do you put your personal feelings into it? If it is the latter, here is the problem we have. What you have stated is YOUR value system. OTOH, there are plenty of people out there that would rather have $1000 than their kid. The Chinese peasant would dunk his daughter in a bucket of water because he views her as a burden. In Mexico, my friend was offered a choice of son or daughter for the princely sum of $100 a night. In the US, I have known parents who couldn't care less about their kids. Kinda makes it like using a deity as a yardstick. Which yardstick to use?
To answer your question truthfully, I wouldn't want him there either. Would I shed a tear if he died of natural causes? Nope. That said, if he has paid his debt to society as we have prescribed, I will not stand in his way to live next to me. I wouldn't like it but on principle, I'd live with it seeing as how I said that he did the crime, did the time and is not in arrears. If you are willing to change your principles when it is inconvenient, it isn't much of a principle, is it?
Perhaps so. Perhaps we could even just make him the guest of honor for the "Necktie Party". However, we as a society don't have the stones for either. If you want to rope all who are guilty of child molestations, fine. Fact is, most of us are even talking about doing away with capital punishment.