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so wait cyn--you reject the idea that the entire criminal legal system is based around, which is that there is some correspondence between being convicted of a felony and a period of incarceration--which should zero things out.
you seem instead to imagine that the commission of a felony reflects some inward defect--you kind of have to assume something like this for your argument to make sense (you dont say this---i'm filling in the middle step)...so if commission of a felony is an expression of a Defect of or a Predisposition to Evil, then it would kind of follow that you'd be fine with stripping ex-felons of their most basic civil rights--but that really does fly entirely in the face of the whole american criminal legal system.
what does the right to vote have to do with whether you, personally, would trust someone to---o i dont know---be your accountant--if you knew that he had a prior conviction for--say--felony tax evasion?
i dont see any connection.
we're talking about the right of people who have been convicted of a felony and have served the time that society (except you) understands to be adequate punishment for that felony should have the right to vote AFTER they've served their sentence.
there are no good conclusions to be drawn from your position either--nor from that of ustwo--permanent disenfranchisement of ex-felons would create a permanent class of non-citizens, without rights, without representation--it is not rocket science to see that these folk would understand themselves are being ENTIRELY without recourse in the context of the existing order--because they would be---and as a function of that would be FAR more likely to not only be inclined to but to be situationally FORCED to commit other crimes. so it seems that your position, were it translated into policy, would be entirely self-fulfilling.
maybe from there it'd be easy to justify rounding these folks up and sending them to lovely re-education camps--where they still would have no hope of getting back their basic civil liberties--so why not just advocate capital punishment for all felonies?
functionally you're already doing it.
i really dont understand where this is coming from.
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