Reply #10: Sure. [View All]

[politicat]

Depends on the person, the skills, the job, and a lot of other factors.

Several members of my extended family have made stupid mistakes (usually economic at root, rather than violent or sexual). They learned from them, but often got stuck in a cycle of poverty that led them back to criminal behavior because they had no other alternatives.

Just because you fuck up once doesn't mean you should spend the rest of your life paying for it. Most crime is of the slippery slope, gee that was dumb type. Most criminals aren't mean or vicious or rapacious by nature. But it's a cycle.

Would I hire a multiply convicted jewel thief as a courier for the international diamond trade? I just might, because that person would know we'd be watching him like a hawk. Would I hire a peeping tom for a daycare center? Maybe - if his kink is grownup naked ladies, kids would probably be safe. A 19 year old convicted of sleeping with his 16 year old girlfriend after her parents threw a fit? No problem.