On Fri, 25 May 2012 12:28:26 -0500
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
On 25-May-12 07:46, d wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2012 13:36:48 +0100
Bruce wrote:
This would seem to offer strong support to those who argue that repeat
offenders should be locked up and the key thrown away as in the USA.
Personally, I think it points to the absence or failure of any real
effort to rehabilitate convicted offenders.
Some people are a victim of circumstance and can be rehabilitated, some
are just born bad and can never be.
I don't buy the "born bad" argument. However, I will grant that some
Some people are - they're called psychopaths. Its a brain fault and there's
nothing you can do about it. I've never understood why its so obvious that
people are born with different physical capabilities but some people just
refuse to accept that people are also born with different mental capabilities
and ways of thinking.
much they may want to. In reality, most of the people you claim were
"born bad" were really just born _poor_.
********. There are billions of people born poor - it doesn't turn them into
murderers or rapist or rioters. "born poor" is the lazy patronising excuse
of guilt ridden middle classes liberals because it fits nicely into their
social engineering agenda.
B2003