Agreed
"The majority of society is made up of good, caring people."
Toni's statistics are correct: 1 in 4 Americans have criminal records.
Does anyone honestly think that 25% of the US population are evil people? Or is it that we just have too many laws, or too many stupid laws?
???The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders??? -- Lao Tzu
No one is saying that an employer should be obliged to hire murderers, rapists, pedophiles, thieves, vandals, or the like. People generally understand that there is a difference between those who commit crimes like these and those who commit victimless crimes or crimes of self-defense.
After all, laws are written by human beings, not carved in stone by gods. And laws are written by powerful people who have motivations which might not be entirely noble or in the best interest of the citizens who are expected to abide by them. The Fugitive Slave Act was a law too. A bad law. A law that many compassionate people were willing to break. This is just one example from our early American history, but it is not the only bad law ever enacted by our legislature. There are a plethora of laws out there, and when Charles Bundy says that good people break these laws everyday, he is absolutely correct. When I worked at AAA, they used to say that a person breaks 7,000 traffic laws to every one in which he gets caught. Is that person a criminal, then?
Weeding out the good applicants from the bad is not a simple task, and it certainly can't be determined by whether or not the applicant indicated on an application that he/she had a criminal record. Your applicant might have no criminal record and pass a drug test and yet still have the sticky fingers that makes him a very bad bet on the job.
