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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you friends with or could you be friends with someone who has committed a crime?  Would it depend upon the type of crime?  Unfortunately, this has come up in my life.  Relative by marriage (but someone I see and interact with often socially) is losing a professional license and faces complete loss of income and maybe jail.  Already getting emails and calls to help the family financially, show support, etc.  [/quote]

OP, I think referring to someone in this situation as "a criminal" is a bit overwrought.  Many statutes on the books carry the risk of jail time, including illegally xeroxing a recipe in a magazine.  Or speeding. Your relative may end up regaining his/her license and serving no jail time.  He/she is not "a criminal."  This person made a mistake.  Your point of view is, in my opinion, bizarre and childish.[/quote]

Person in question committed a crime.  A real crime.  Will be going to prison for 10 years.  Well beyond speeding, not paying tickets, xeroxing recipes.[/quote]

Okay.  Does that mean that this person is not a human being anymore?  Is beyond all hope?  Deserves to be written out of the community of humankind?

You seem awfully judgmental and really almost insanely black and white in your thinking.  As if this person has been transformed into some kind of hideous monster who can't be around "good people" because good people will be infected by their horribleness.  You don't say what this person did, but not even a court would require their family to cut them off.  [/quote]

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