Sex offender??? IT'S NOT FAIR?

Question

Do you think this is fair?

Facts:

Man convicted of possession of child porn in 1998
-Served 2 1/2 years in prison
-3 years supervised release
-Man gets out and goes to college for computers
-Starts a successful business
-Is now a multi-millionaire
-People/customers knows about his past but doesn't seem to care

It doesn't matter if he hasn't done anything since then, HE IS A SEX OFFENDER!!!

WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?

While I am struggling to make ends meet and I am a law abiding citizen

When a person has money, does his past not matter any more to people???

Answer 1

Are you proposing a law that "sex offenders" must be failures in life and can never aspire to succeed at anything? This particular person you describe sounds to me like he applied himself, worked hard, and became successful.

Answer 2

There are at least two main points to your question.
First, the fairness of society in general; and
Second, whether or not an offender can change for the better.
There are many aspects of life that do not seem fair. As a lawyer, I have decided that the only way lawyers can be financially successful is to be slightly unethical. I am sure that is not entirely the case, but it seems so. I am not financially successful because I am not confrontational and try to do what is best for my client. I present an honest evaluation of the case and if I can't prove the falsehoods of my opponents case, I generally stand to lose. I believe in open and honest communication, something that the aggressive attorney can do but won't do when zealously advocating their client's position. That means that I have to be employed in something that can utilize my abilities without having to deal with the false confrontations of legal practice. Again, I am generalizing from my own perspective, but it does seem that way much of the time.
The only thing that keeps me on a balance with life is knowing that there is an eternal accounting being made that will eventually catch up with all the unethical practitioners.
Your second point is what concerns me most. You seem to say that because this person messed up his life once, that he cannot turn over a new leaf. What is so wrong with believing that he truly changed his ways? It does look suspicious when you say he went into the computer business since that is the single most available source of his past weakness. In other words, it seems that he surrounded himself with the temptations he should be avoiding. Nevertheless, we should probably give him the benefit of the doubt until he is caught with more of the same on his terminals. I would like to think that he repented of his bad habits, outgrew the fetish or fascination of his past and is now living with normal desires.
On the other hand, I know that such fascinations can and do become addictions and are very hard to break without much counseling and personal effort.
As for the rest of us, poor, law abiding citizens, we have to continue to be the best people we can be because if we adopt the ways of the world and become just as bad as those we currently scorn, then we have made the world worse for giving in. We can only make the world better by continuing to struggle to show forth good examples to those around us.
Carry on and never give up.

Answer 3

What difference does it make whether or not it is fair? And further more, what does his crime have to do with it? If he was convicted of armed robbery, drug dealing, or the like, would you still feel the same? Seems to me the bigger complaint you have is that somhow or another you think he has it better than you. And maybe he does. Is it fair, no, but like mothers have said for decades "Who says life is fair?"

Answer 4

The real question here is "can people be rehabilitated". If you say "No", then you should work for lifelong sentencing.