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Denying jobs to recovered convicts is a very contested topic. That stigma turns into an irrational and easily disproved belief that a convict can never really r
by trickstra 6y ago
Denying jobs to recovered convicts is a very contested topic. That stigma turns into an irrational and easily disproved belief that a convict can never really recover and start leading a normal life. Such stigma then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Stigmatization is the act of creating stigmas. Maintaining them. And that is very clearly not rational. To be rational, you'd re-evaluate the person from the ground up before each event. Sure, being in prison would still be a factor, one of many. But stigma assumes that this factor alone defines the whole outcome, which is irrational.
- busymom0 6y agoI feel like you are talking about it from a political correctness point of view. A bank denying a job to a convicted robber is 100% justified and saying that's somehow not rational is just silly.
- trickstra 6y agoI'm talking from pure logic point. Denying a job to a convict (as a rule) is based on the assumption that it's absolutely impossible for a convict to recover and start leading a normal life. It is based on a 0% probability of that happening. And that's quite clearly not the case.