What's your perspective?

Subject: What's your perspective?
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vampboy 17.05.18 - 10:24am
Do you guys think that in majority of cases rehabilitation of ex convicts is truly possible?
I have had quite a few friends from the streets with prior convictions, and while I remained distant from everything they partook in, it seemed that they did continue to commit crimes even after being released from prison.
One of my past friends from the Netherlands once contemplated over how much he has transformed since his earlier convictions, which was in armed burglary and it seems so ironic that when he breaks the chains of a bike to steal it or does shoplifting with tons of grocery items that it somehow does not equate to the gravity of crimes he once did.
I see the same pattern in another person I knew who was in prison for commit serious assault against the abuser of his niece's ex boyfriend and yet today he still continues to sell drugs on street corners.
It does make me wonder whether such individuals are perhaps just wired differently than us? Perhaps they do not respond to the stimuli of fear and guilt the same way ordinary people do? This could be a result of both nurture and nature, but knowing the people I do, I wonder what exactly the point of the prison sentence was? And if it did, why do they still possess such a high degree of danger to society?
It leaves me in awe sometimes.
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ladibud 17.05.18 - 10:56am
paragraphs... for the love of God... paragraphs. * +

mikeymk 17.05.18 - 11:02am
Fk reading that.

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ogdenz 17.05.18 - 11:03am
I'm not reading all that. Be more succinct in future. * +

vampboy 17.05.18 - 11:08am

tldr do prison sentence really rehabilitate and if they don't, what's the point if people continue to endanger society?

The paragraph is my own personal experience, I realize no one gives two sh*ts about that, but still someone might care enough to read, or not.

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mikeymk 17.05.18 - 11:08am
But yeah, i think people evolve, and so they base their lives on what they know.

You can steer anyone in any direction - yes some do fail after an Eton education and some rise from council estates, but they're relatively few.

Once in a mindset and on a life path, it's difficult to drop what you know and change path. You can bend it, but jumping tracks is something else altogether.

If someone's spent their time in crime and drugs, they get released from prison, where they gonna turn to..? They're not suddenly gonna go and train to be a Sea Rescue helicopter pilot, are they..?! * +

gt_tdi 17.05.18 - 11:09am

@ mikeymk - 17.05.18 - 11:08am
But yeah, i think people evolve, and so they base their lives on what they know.

You can steer anyone in any direction - yes some do fail after an Eton education and some rise from council estates, but they're relatively few.

Once in a mindset and on a life path, it's difficult to drop what you know and change path. You can bend it, but jumping tracks is something else altogether.

If someone's spent their time in crime and drugs, they get released from prison, where they gonna turn to..? They're not suddenly gonna go and train to be a Sea Rescue helicopter pilot, are they..?!

@ ogdenz - 17.05.18 - 11:03am
I'm not reading all that. Be more succinct in future.

You don't need to. I write long sentence to allow a flow of thoughts and to gain clarity over a certain topic.
In any case, I don't think it's that long anyway. * +