MySpace boots 90,000 sex offenders

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Whilst I'm in no way condoning the actions or crimes committed by this men and women, it raises a moral question whether this was the right thing to do? A few of these people were probably wrongly convicted of their crime, some of them are probably reformed. Why should we continue to persecute them for their crime?

Also, one could argue that keeping these people on MySpace will give them enough social interaction with people to stop them re-offending. Lack of social interaction with other women or men may have been the reason they committed the crimes in the first place.

It's such a complex moral issue. I personally think it shouldn't be MySpace's responsibility to police this kind of thing.

Probably, Some were wrongly convicted. For those "convicted" reformed you speak of should never be allowed back into society. I would rather know who's on the sex offenders registered list than unwary speak to a sex offender i didn't know who sexually abused kids/woman/men.

Honestly dean, would you go out and drink with a convicted reformed sex offender?

If the answer to that question is no and it probably is. You shouldn't be condoning that we speak to sex offenders via the internet and the good people not knowing about it. Yeah they are reformed but their victims will never have that feeling of a normal existance again.

Convicted sex offenders should be locked up and they key thrown away. Period. They are the scum of the earth and lowest of the lowest to call them animals would be an insult to animals.

There was a sex offender in the news/papers here in the uk about two months ago who (I sure got set free) or he served something stupid like 6 months. Society took the law into their own hands and chopped his manhood off. The justice system works for sex offenders in the way they'll get 2 years (if convicted) out in 12 months to do it all again and the expense of ruining someones life.

Castrate them, that will stop them in their tracks.