news.com.au— Violent criminals and sex offenders in Australia are being allowed to change their names by deed poll, helping them hide their pasts and reduce the risk of revenge attacks.
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I agree. As long as we treat criminals as if there is some inexorable demon lurking inside each and every one of them our society will remain in a moral dark age.
I say let the punishment fit the crime. Letting known violent offenders and various other sort's of harm causing criminal's run around public with a slap on the wrist is an abomination to the natural order of the world.Look at the sort of crimes that existed in the past when people were likely to shoot you for doing something like this, or have you hung. The crime rate's keep going up, and prison population's increase more so every year. That's the result of treating offense's against natural norm's as illness's. Rehabilitation doesn't work. It's against nature, and natural selection paradigm's. I'm all for stricter punishment's for violent behaviors that are a detriment to society as a whole. Even passively violent crime's such as sexual assault, especially on a child.
That's because the prison system doesn't really rehabilitate. The reason there are so many repeat offenders is because prisons are s**tty and ineffective. That's something that really needs work.However, changing these criminals names is a good idea. That is an important part of rehabilitation, and it isn't like it makes them immune to the law, should they recommit. It will only serve to protect them from everyday people who feel they have a need to personally enact vengeance or justice themselves
I'm sorry, but you're telling me to check facts and linking me to a 15 page wikipedia article, yet you did not say anything which conflicted with what i said. So I'm having a hard time seing what i said that was wrong?
Big irony. Giving them a chance would be great for them to start a new life. However, these action also need ways to make sure that those ex-criminals will behave themselves.
Its ok for the ex criminals to get a new life what about the poor victims of crime who helps these poor people pick up the pieces and trys to repair the damage, if it is repairable that is. If these ex criminals broke the law then let them pay the price, I have no sympathy with them, I bet if they lived in a Muslim country they would of thought twice before they broke the law, for a start the prisons in those countries are not five star hotels like they are here.
paulishFeb 22, 2009
I agree. As long as we treat criminals as if there is some inexorable demon lurking inside each and every one of them our society will remain in a moral dark age.
nidstylesFeb 22, 2009
I say let the punishment fit the crime. Letting known violent offenders and various other sort's of harm causing criminal's run around public with a slap on the wrist is an abomination to the natural order of the world.Look at the sort of crimes that existed in the past when people were likely to shoot you for doing something like this, or have you hung. The crime rate's keep going up, and prison population's increase more so every year. That's the result of treating offense's against natural norm's as illness's. Rehabilitation doesn't work. It's against nature, and natural selection paradigm's. I'm all for stricter punishment's for violent behaviors that are a detriment to society as a whole. Even passively violent crime's such as sexual assault, especially on a child.
elwoodbluesFeb 22, 2009
Fritzl is Australian...he is now known as Bruce and living on Ramsey St.
64bitllamaFeb 22, 2009
That's because the prison system doesn't really rehabilitate. The reason there are so many repeat offenders is because prisons are s**tty and ineffective. That's something that really needs work.However, changing these criminals names is a good idea. That is an important part of rehabilitation, and it isn't like it makes them immune to the law, should they recommit. It will only serve to protect them from everyday people who feel they have a need to personally enact vengeance or justice themselves
krissamFeb 23, 2009
I'm sorry, but you're telling me to check facts and linking me to a 15 page wikipedia article, yet you did not say anything which conflicted with what i said. So I'm having a hard time seing what i said that was wrong?
somejuicyFeb 23, 2009
Big irony. Giving them a chance would be great for them to start a new life. However, these action also need ways to make sure that those ex-criminals will behave themselves.
boy4girlSep 15, 2009
Its ok for the ex criminals to get a new life what about the poor victims of crime who helps these poor people pick up the pieces and trys to repair the damage, if it is repairable that is. If these ex criminals broke the law then let them pay the price, I have no sympathy with them, I bet if they lived in a Muslim country they would of thought twice before they broke the law, for a start the prisons in those countries are not five star hotels like they are here.