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Originally Posted by punky
It isn't off-topic, but I don't know about you but there are some criminals i'd rather not talk/be friendly with, particularly unrepentant ones. Also, if someone was a junkie who burgled homes to feed his habit, then OK, but trying to kill someone is a different matter entirely.
I try not to judge people and take them as I find them, but it can be harder than normal in these circumstance.
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But you're being judgemental (and prejudicial) here because you don't know *anything* about these people!!
What about all those people who have had their lives (and homes) turned upside down and been made to feel unsafe in their own houses by that junkie?
What if that person who tried to kill someone was a battered wife but who didn't get leniency from the court?
Without talking to them, you're never going to get their side of the story or know whether they're "unrepentant" or not.
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the second point, with the Big Brother overtones, and the fact they can censor your letter at will restricting your free speech, is something I think passionate liberals would take exception to.
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Alas, once again it seems you misunderstand our (well, at least "my") point of view.
As I keep saying, you're free to say whatever you want *PROVIDED* it doesn't negatively affect someone else.
Now if you write from your prison cell "It was Harry the Horse what grassed me up, give him a good kicking for me" or you write to a prisoner "be in the yard by the south wall at 10:30am during the exercise period because we're busting you out!" I can see that these *WOULD* have a "negative effect"!!