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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I was asked my opinion. That's what it is. I'm not making a case for changing your mind. I'm saying ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Whatever the consequences of your actions bear, that's what that means. Simple, if it happens to mean in 1950s that you are ostracized from the community, or in 2000s where the community is more permissive and forgiving. Or in the 1800s where marijuana or cocaine possession was legal, to the current past 20 year war on drugs. Times change. Viewpoints change. Laws change.
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Then you're using the phrase "accept responsibility for your own actions" as a cop out to avoid having to deal with changing a law?
If society constantly changes, the consequence of disenfranchisement due to felony is not necessarily an ultimate consequence - it is simply a consequence which may or may not be appropriate. It is one thing to accept responsibility for ones' actions, but it is another thing to suffer a consequence which is essentially arbitrary.
As for your AIDS/Pregnancy analogies - they're weak. Neither of those two scenarios offer an alternative to dealing with the consequences. You have AIDS. You have a child. Disenfranchisement can be removed with the stroke of a pen. Or you can shrug your shoulders and pout and "accept responsibility" (read: accept that society says you cannot vote).
And I'm not asking you to change my mind - I'm asking you to support your case because I want to hear it.