Re: Ask yourself this question (Score 1)

Exactly. People should be restrained than to throw out some statistics. 30% is a poor metric to justify something as time consuming, costly, and with far greater implications than on the surface. In our litigious society I would suspect a great number of people with records, as you alluded. I wonder if we are coming to an age where a blanket policy of denying any record holders is the norm. When monolithic corporations start to look at faceless arrest record details as the main indicator of trustworthiness, then we are in trouble. How many people without records are pernicious? How many people have made "mistakes" and are genuinely good people? Hey, did Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling have prior records? We keep getting more and more intolerant and persecutory. People should be looked at holisitcally and not scrutinized and disenfranchised because of a record. When we start getting into Minority Report like background check we are taking away basic human dignity. What are we saying to people? Make a mistake and you will forever pay society. Then people with records can't get hired and go on to crime, and continue this cycle. In this country steeped purportedly in Judeo-Christian values such as forgiveness, I am having a strange time seeing so much intolerance and lack of forgiveness.