Anxiety Support Group
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So, this post isn't about me today. I'm trying to help my friend with her question she had in class a few weeks ago that he was talking to me about. A few weeks ago, in her psychology class, she asked a pretty good question to which the teacher couldn't answer. She asked is there hope for the most wretched, screwed up people out there if they truly wanted to turn their lives around. People like murderers, terrorists, dictators, rapists, child molesters, abusive parents, animal abusers. If those types of people wanted to truly turn their lives around and regret what they have done, is there any hope for them? Or do they have to pay for the rest of their lives? I do know that a lot of people that have done really awful things turn to religion, but most people still seem to shun them no matter how much they try to show they have changed. So, since the teacher couldn't answer the students question, I'm going to ask you guys. You guys are pretty smart, so I figured I'd ask you all.
sleeping in the same house with a stranger who had been convicted of murder [ and they really did it] because they claim to have found God .. How about letting a "now reformed " convicted child molester baby sit your kids ? Im sure there are a few exceptions, but most really bad people stay bad.
If a person was able to willfully commit such horrible selfish acts, the only thing they deserve is to be put down.
I wish that society treated such individuals as it treats dangerous animals. If a bear or mountain lion attacks and devours a human being, we go after that animal and shoot it down. Once it develops that taste for human flesh, it will likely attack humans again.
In a similar manner, once a human predator learns to enjoy the act of raping, killing, torturing, or molesting...they will compulsively seek out to do such things again and again.
Extermination is the only way of curing them.
My dad was a policeman for 20 some years and he always told me that a leopard can NOT change their spots.
A person develops their personality by the age 4 or there about.
Think about how difficult it is for YOU to change......now add that to someone who is deranged....it is hard for anyone to stop being who they truly are.
My personal experience is I trusted a convicted murderer and thief becuz he claimed he found Jesus and acted like a true changed person.....only to show his true colors several years into "gaining trust" with my elderly parents.......then he robbed them and trashed their house (he got away with it too).
I have had other personal experiences as well to back up my beliefs about people changing......or shall I say, hiding their true self for a short period of time in order to con others. I do NOT believe that MOST people can change who they really are IMO.
I will quote Maya Angelo who was a very wise woman (RIP).....
"If someone SHOWS you who they are the first time......BELIEVE THEM!!!!"
Sometimes the celebrity status actually works against them . Plaxico
Burris , ex NFL wide receiver was given a much longer than average sentence when a gun he had in his pocket went off in a New York city
night club. He had a concealed carry permit from another state but it had expired. The mayor wanted to "make an example " of him to deter
illegal weapons in New York. I dont know that people disrespected him because it was an accident, but he became the subject of nationwide
jokes. If the same thing happened to you or me, no one outside of the immediate area would even hear about it.