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Right To Know Your Neighbours Past
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Theres recently been a story in my local paper about someone been driven out of their home because it became common knowledge (ironically because the same paper reported it... ) that they had downloaded child porn.
In the comment section of the paper there were the usual calls that we should all know where convicted sex offenders were living etc.
Just got me thinking, where would you draw the line?
Should we know where all convicted burglers were living in case you got broke into?
All Thieves? Drug addicts? Shoplifters?
In the comment section of the paper there were the usual calls that we should all know where convicted sex offenders were living etc.
Just got me thinking, where would you draw the line?
Should we know where all convicted burglers were living in case you got broke into?
All Thieves? Drug addicts? Shoplifters?
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It sounds ideal in principle - as so many notions do - that we know the criminal pasts of our neighbours.
But the difficulty lies in the fact that there are those whose misplaced sense of self-righteousness leads directly into actions of a vigilante nature, and that is a very slippery slope indeed.
On the basis that a paediatrician was assaulted by individuals in his neighbourhood whose self-righteous application of mob rule prevented them from ascertaining what his job title actually meant, I would be against everyone knowing everyone's legal history.
The law applies punishments, and once completed, they should not follow an individual around for the rest of their life - that is not now a civilised society works.
But the difficulty lies in the fact that there are those whose misplaced sense of self-righteousness leads directly into actions of a vigilante nature, and that is a very slippery slope indeed.
On the basis that a paediatrician was assaulted by individuals in his neighbourhood whose self-righteous application of mob rule prevented them from ascertaining what his job title actually meant, I would be against everyone knowing everyone's legal history.
The law applies punishments, and once completed, they should not follow an individual around for the rest of their life - that is not now a civilised society works.
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