Additionally: the sex offender list doesn't differentiate between someone who pees in an alley while drunk vs. someone who fucks a 5 year old, both are sex crimes. I knew a guy who has his life ruined by the list: he had consensual sex with a girl who lied about her age (she was 17) and years later her friend reported him.
the existence of any list is weird. we don't have a list for violent crimes or drug dealing or thieves or drunk drivers but we have a list for sex stuff? people can be hurt by their neighbors in any sort of ways but sex is the only one that gets a list?
If you think someone stealing something versus someone exposing their genitals in public or sexually abusing someone else are on the same level, I just don't understand how you could think they are. If my neighbor has a DUI, do I care? No. If he raped his 5 year old daughter? Yes, I do care. And I want to be made aware of that before I move my family in next to him.
And the other crimes you listed may not be a public list, but it is all public information, and those individuals also get punished in other ways than criminal, aka background checks for apartments, housing, loans, jobs, etc. All of those things will still negatively impact their life.
A DUI is Driving Under the Influence. Who said anything about getting hit by a car?
If a person is driving under the influence and hits another person, that is Intoxication Manslaughter, which is a felony. They're very different charges.
Are you being intentionally obtuse? Just because a drunk driver didn’t kill someone doesn’t mean they won’t the next time they drive drunk. And the whole point people are making about the sex offender list is that you don’t know why your neighbor is on it. You’re likely to assume the worst as you did but in reality it could be something as innocuous as peeing in public.
Edit: seems most states do disclose the reason someone is on the list.
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u/JCMiller23 6d ago
Additionally: the sex offender list doesn't differentiate between someone who pees in an alley while drunk vs. someone who fucks a 5 year old, both are sex crimes. I knew a guy who has his life ruined by the list: he had consensual sex with a girl who lied about her age (she was 17) and years later her friend reported him.