Good grief!
If I was unjustly thrown in prison, I'd make sure I was properly educated and hit the law books. Many have done just that. I am thankful that most don't have such fragile, touchy feely egos as you suggest. Liberalism isn't becoming to even you ... .
“Getting a college degree would be the absolute last thing in one’s mind, when his entire life has been destroyed.”
Do you know that some “convicts” in prison justly or not write some decent books in prison? Being unjustly imprisoned is not the “destruction” of one's life. I'm so glad our founders and other great men in history don't have your liberal touchy feely mentality. Toughen up! Your feminine side needs to be toned down.
I wonder how many of the Founding Fathers were thrown into prison for 20-30 years, falsely accused of RAPE, convicted and jailed. Do you have any idea? Ten? Five? Zero?
Get a clue. It’s one thing to be thrown into prison for being a rebel. It’s entirely different to be done so, for crimes where one is permanently relegated by society as an outcaste. Being convicted of rape does that. Being convicted of paedophilia does that. Attacking a British post and being imprisoned for it, doesn’t.
Imagine yourself being imprisoned for molesting a child, and having your entire family, friends and bosses believe the judgment as just. Then come out after 20-30 years and try to redeem yourself after violent episodes of sodomy and what-not, within the confinement. You think it will work? A convict’s word against a jury’s. Over paedophilia. Yea, that’ll wash.
“Being wrongfully thrown into prison would qualify as one of those things that can irreparably damage one’s self-esteem to an extent that all hope is lost, often permanently.”
He’s right. Every man has his breaking point. Some men are very, very strong, but is a man to be blamed if he is only middling, average strong?
We often hear people say, “If I can do it, anyone can.” However, if the person speaking is a superior individual, he is mistaken. Most of humanity can *not* do whatever it is that he’s speaking of.
That’s not touchy-feely or liberal guilt; it’s just a fact of human nature.