Would you date a criminal (a person having a record)?

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12 Oct 2022, 7:54 pm

Plain and simple: No, hell no!

A criminal is a criminal. If they get caught eating a corpse or smoking a joint, it's still a crime. And once a criminal, always a criminal. Besides, all pot smokers I once knew were garbage! They'd get high and start treating me like I'm subhuman, mocking me and getting a rise out of me. So the more of them rot in prison, and the longer, the better.

Arizona once made pot possession a felony, and put people in prison for a year for it. I really miss those days!

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13 Oct 2022, 7:19 am

Aspie1 wrote:

Plain and simple: No, hell no!

A criminal is a criminal. If they get caught eating a corpse or smoking a joint, it's still a crime. And once a criminal, always a criminal.

Does this include holding illegal social gatherings during the COVID crisis?

Or, had you been alive a hundred years ago, drinking alcoholic beverages during Prohibition?

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13 Oct 2022, 11:26 am

Mona Pereth wrote:

Does this include holding illegal social gatherings during the COVID crisis?

I wasn't convicted, let alone caught. :wink:

Besides, scamdemic lockdowns aren't laws. They were never presented as bills, voted on, or signed. No law = no crime.

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14 May 2023, 5:40 pm

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Just having a criminal record isn't a deal-beaker. A lot depends on the type of crime and circumstances. It doesn't automatically mean someone is in the habit of making poor life choices either. There are plenty of justifiable reasons to break a law - laws aren't always fair or just.

True. This question is too vauge. For example Biden just pardoned people who were convicted only for simple possession of pot. There is a HUGE difference between somebody who occasionally gets high at home on their weekends & somebody who is a seriel killer but both could have criminal records. There's also been plenty of civil rights activists & various others who were arrested & found guilty when they were publically protesting because they were tresspassing, disturbing the peace, or being disorderly; while there's plenty of politicians who get away with violent rape. The justice system is EXTREMLY FLAWED

Same with several known celebrities (actors, singers, models, etc.) too. Like Mel Gibson, I think Bruce Willis (at least a misdemeanor for talking back to a cop at one point), and certain rappers like Cardi B and 50 Cent were notorious for it. It still doesn't change their positive public image more dramatically.

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14 May 2023, 6:24 pm

It depends on the crime.

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14 May 2023, 6:27 pm

Abortion? Yup.
Insurrection? Yup.
Hiding people during the Holocaust? Yup.
Knocking sense into child or animal abusers? Yup.

I'm a moral relativist.

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14 May 2023, 6:42 pm

My current boyfriend Jerry is a criminal

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14 May 2023, 8:02 pm

I have dated criminals, so my answer would be a yes.

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15 May 2023, 10:11 am

Aspie1 wrote:

Mona Pereth wrote:

Does this include holding illegal social gatherings during the COVID crisis?

I wasn't convicted, let alone caught. :wink:

You're still a criminal even if you don't get caught.

Unlike dope smokers, at least where it's legal.

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15 May 2023, 4:38 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

Aspie1 wrote:

Mona Pereth wrote:

Does this include holding illegal social gatherings during the COVID crisis?

I wasn't convicted, let alone caught. :wink:

You're still a criminal even if you don't get caught.

Unlike dope smokers, at least where it's legal.

Good point!

The action is what matters - not if someone was or wasn’t caught. Disobeying social distancing laws during COVID lockdown is worse than smoking weed because it was putting others at risk. Weed should be legalized in the US.

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15 May 2023, 4:47 pm

It depends on what the criminal record is. If it's something like a murder then I'd probably steer clear because there's something about murderers that I don't trust, unless they only murdered when under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but I wouldn't date them if they still took drugs or alcohol that affected their behaviour. But murders, especially when done without being under the influence, is a very big deal and is not something that any person in their right mind would do, so if a person has murdered before, chances are they could murder again.

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15 May 2023, 6:38 pm

I think murder and other violent crimes get their own category apart from "having a record", unless of course the person offed someone in self-defence or it was a home intruder etc. -- in places where we're allowed to kill home intruders.

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