Why Are The Lives of Sex Offenders More Important Than The Lives Of Their Victims In A Pandemic?
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, prisons across the nations are releasing inmates for the fear that these criminals might contract the virus. Needless to say, the majority of us, especially women and mothers, understand on an instinctive level why this move is unspeakably bad. We’re not heartless if we fear for our safety and well-being, for as Adam Smith stated, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
States all over the country have been releasing murderers and sex offenders, and many are getting re-arrested almost immediately after their release. You’re not a heartless monster if you think that this is simply unacceptable. The whole point of a government is to protect innocent people in society. Yet the state governments that are releasing dangerous criminals back into the community are putting everyone, especially the most vulnerable of us, at risk, for the sake of showing “mercy to the guilty.”