But wont forcing criminals to openly deal with their issues help them, well more people that is. I'm sorry i'm a catholic but i can't justify a priest not being allowed to confirm he was told by said person that they did comit a crime, being sorry for calling your sister a bitch and parking in a handicap spot are not even close to rape or murder. I think the line between "sin" and crime are the issue.
What confuses me is that the person confesing the sin has done something wrong, why is it better to keep it quiet if the goal is to help them. How is the person keeping their lips closed doing any good, oh wait they listened and that will help
your looking at it from a misleading view point (IMO). your looking at the direct effect of a priest or therapist ratting each individual person out. the real issue is that if the confidence is lost no one will seek help from people like priests and therapists any more and will continue to have the same problems over and over again until the law finally catches them. how many victims will it take?
the idea here is not to let ppl get away with sick crimes but rather to operate in a way the law can't in an effort to make changes to counciling and support rather then punishment. making priests and therapists testify against there church or customers is not going to allow this great revelation of crimes to the cops, it going to cause there to be no place you can go to get help for what may be a real problem, with out fear of of being punished. So then we are left with sick criminal finding there own way to deal with there problems which obviously has lead to crimes in the first place.
i feel the 2 should be kept separate because allowing this will not help reduce crime but rather it will cause criminals to not seek help.
i understand the priests position but what happens next week when lil Billy has touched a yournger girl in a weird way is having weird feeling that he doesn't understand now.... but now he is afraid to talk to his minister about it because he saw what happen to the last boy who tried to get help. so lil Billy just tryign to deal with it his self, and well lets say it doesn't go so well, and i think its safe to say that in at least some of the cases it wont, and eventually rapes a girl, and now Billy is distraut with what he has done and knows he needs help.... but still he doesn't want to go to prison.... so who can he talk to???? Soooo things digress as they typically do..... and he has moved up to rape and murder because its easier if you just kill them and get rid of the body right?
so now my final question is was it better or worse that lil Billy didn't have any where to turn for help other than satisfying his misunderstood needs? I think at that point that preacher is going to have to assume some of the responsibility for the later rapes and murders that may have been avoidable.
and in the end..... the preacher breaking his convenient led to one arrest, but many many many future crimes that possibly could have been avoided.
And finally April: "but wont forcing criminals to openly deal with their issues help them" - would you like to willingly come clean and receive punishment for all crimes (unpunished as of yet by the law) that you have committed in your life? ....every time you have broken a law.... every time you have speeded, every time you have littered, every tme you smoked or possessed pot before it was legal where you were...ect?
and one more thing.... do modern prisons really "help" ppl, or just punish them?
rlmfao hmm did i take an oath?? lmfao
