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The active word is "should". Society didn't forgive him. He worked his butt off, impressed the right people, and is the one-in-a-million success story of life a
by Unbeliever69 9y ago
The active word is "should". Society didn't forgive him. He worked his butt off, impressed the right people, and is the one-in-a-million success story of life after a felony. Society as a whole hasn't changed. He changed.
- WalterBright 9y agoRead the comments on that article - it's full of hang-em-high sentiment.
- tptacek 9y agoThey're mostly declarations of rooting interest against the half of American polity associated with universities.
- warent 9y agoCan you explain "hang em high" sentiment? I haven't heard this expression before
- WalterBright 9y agoOne of the comments amply illustrates the meaning: "Once a violent criminal, always a violent criminal. That part of him will always be part of him. How dare our legal system release such dangerous people back into our world. Maybe he changed, but most all of them go on to harm many more people. Too bad he wasn't killed during the robbery. I only wonder how some of his victims are coping with his violent acts, and how many other victims he harmed before he was caught."
- warent 9y agoAside from that comment being absolutely repugnant, it's also a very unfortunate and limited way of thinking. Thanks for clarifying. Hang em high sentiment indeed.
- tptacek 9y agoIt's not really the way most of those people are thinking. If the fact pattern was changed to one with more conservative valence, like an ex-con running an important trucking concern, the roles in the thread would be reversed.
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- bryanrasmussen 9y agoI like how there is one sentence between 'once a violent criminal, always a violent criminal' and 'maybe he changed', if they'd been right next to each other it would have been too jarring.