How come people keep saying "chose" to break the law?

Question

You are not the incarcerated - you don't know what their CHOICES where, are, or will be.
The question is ...if you ALREADY served time for your crime - why are they STILL being punished by the rest of society.
If we belive in " In GOD we trust" or innocent until proven guilty, DOESN'T EVERBODY make a mistake???

Answer 1

Most adults have a concept of what is right and what is wrong. "Choosing" to break a law is an option that any adult with a clear conscience and with a sense of intelligence should understand before that person does something illegal. Everyone does make mistakes, but each person has to pay a price. If it isn't in a jail cell, it's in an over-judgmental society. I've made monumental mistakes, and I have been my harshest critic. I've suffered for my mistakes I did towards others, but I also accepted a corrective path for myself which reached the very depths of my spirit. In some cases, we all have to prove ourselves to others, but more importantly to ourselves as to what kind of character we have and how we would best want to be remembered. Life isn't a joke. We make our own choices. It's how we respond from that that counts. You will be stigmatized by others, for certain. But, there is always room for redemption and forgiveness.

Answer 2

WOW ! Their choices are what has led to their incarceration to begin with. Yes everyone makes mistakes and some are bigger than others. You are right, I am not the incarcerated one and I have never been. I am in my 40's and have never been to prison. But again, it is because of the choices I have made. I believe in "God we trust" and innocent until proven guilty but you are talking about people who have been found guilty so they are not innocent.

I believe in giving a person a break but what about the sex offender that my daughter is living with. According to you, I guess I should just give them her children and say "he has paid for his crime so he can live with the little kids." I beg to differ. I don't like to judge anyone by the actions of another but in the same token, there are some crimes that I just can't forgive.

Answer 3

You're responsible for your actions, even "mistakes." Maybe someone will continue to be punished after they've served their time because they haven't admitted that yet.

Answer 4

your question kind of contradicts what you say in the paragraph below. But what I think that you are asking is people dont chose to break the law.

Yes they do, they have the decision to say no i am not going to steal this, or say yes i will.

Answer 5

Yes, everyone makes mistakes, but some people make really big ones. People also go on to make more mistakes.

Answer 6

Right, the criminals had no control over what landed them in jail. They were forced to pick up the gun and rob the bank, they were forced to sell drugs in their own neighborhood, they were forced to shoot people, etc. Get real dude. I know kids who grew up in the worst of neighborhoods of Little Rock, Arkansas (rememebr the HBO documentary 'Bangin' in The Hood'? They shot 20 min of it in LR) and they turned out to be be wonderul, productive people while the majority of their crazy neighbors got involved in gangs, etc. The difference was attitude and outlook, not circumstance.

It is time for people of color to take responsibility for their children and get them out of gangs instead of making g0dd@mned excuses for their sociopathic behavior. It is time to stop glorifying f*cking gangsters and pimps and thugs and baby's daddies and become real men, men that take care of their kids and their women. It is time to start valuing education over violence. There are simply too many black men involved in the "thug life" and being a bum in momma's house and not enough living as examples of how to be real men.

Answer 7

i agree, every one deserves a second chance.

Answer 8

yep

Answer 9

we don't like losers.