Today in the paper there were two criminal columns right next to one another. In the first, a man was convicted of breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, sexual misconduct, and grand theft. He was given five years. In the next column, a man was convicted of having child pornography on his computer. I’m not sure of the actual content, but he was sentenced to forty years.
While I am completely against child pornography, I guess I fail to see how that “crime” was so much worse than the man represented in the first column. Not only that, but the man in the first column can get out on probation and possibly continue to live a normal life. The second man, however, will be listed on the blackened and taboo “Sex-offenders List” for the rest of his days. That type of stigma will haunt the man until death.
Not that I am the official source on ethics or justice, but I feel that my opinion is equally as valid as anyone else’s, given that I backed it with supporting evidence.
Just a slice of classic American apple pie (metaphorically speaking, of course).
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