So I just discovered that I have been working next to the waste of oxygen that raped my best friend several years ago. I work in a manufacturing environment and I know that you can’t fire someone just for being a sex offender unless it directly interferes with work duties (in the US). But despite it being a primarily male workforce he does work with several women who have no idea what he is. He literally followed a woman home, broke into her house, and raped her. Him working here puts every female employee at risk. How is that not an unsafe working environment? How is it at even legal to employ him anywhere where he will have contact with women?

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    9 months ago

    How is it at even legal to employ him anywhere where he will have contact with women?

    If it was illegal for someone to get a job where they could come in contact with 50% of the population you’re just setting them for failure. What about murderers? Should they be prevented from having a job where they interact with anyone because there’s a chance they’ll kill them?

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      9 months ago

      There’s different reasons for murder that could explain how they’re not a threat. For example someone killing the person that molested their child is unlikely to kill a random coworker. That justification doesn’t really exist for rapists.

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      9 months ago

      I understand that first sentence it’s makes sense, but that second sentence, now come on a murderer should in fact be made known and jobless for some pretty damn obvious reasons.

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        9 months ago

        I feel like having no way to legally get food or shelter would make it more likely they’d commit crime again, not less.

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            If someone is executed for murder, then you definitely shouldn’t hire them. But if they served their punishment, letting them out of jail and then not letting them earn the money the need to survive is a recipe for disaster.

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          Except the number of people who classify veterans as murderers for what they did in combat situations is extremely low…