# What crimes/actions make one irredeemable?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-actions-make-one-irredeemable/591716>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-actions-make-one-irredeemable/591716 "2011-08-06T09:50:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-actions-make-one-irredeemable/591716/1 "2011-08-06T09:50:03Z")

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In IMHO since I’m sure different people have different tolerances/limits.

What is the least reprehensible action or crime one can commit where you think that the perpetrator has lost all claim on second chances, and doesn’t deserve redemption in your eyes? And what do you think society should do, if anything, to such people?

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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-actions-make-one-irredeemable/591716/2 "2011-08-06T11:17:37Z")

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> [@Leaper](#):
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> What is the least reprehensible action or crime one can commit where you think that the perpetrator has lost all claim on second chances, and doesn’t deserve redemption in your eyes?

People that destroy other people’s property just for the pleasure of destroying them, like arsonists and vandals.

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> And what do you think society should do, if anything, to such people?

Firing squad.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-crimes-actions-make-one-irredeemable/591716/3 "2011-08-06T11:32:57Z")

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> [@Leaper](#):
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> **What crimes/actions make one irredeemable?**

None. If a person chooses to become a good person then they can reform\*. If a person is _incapable_ of reforming then they are mentally ill, and therefore not fully to blame.

- Theoretically. It doesn’t mean they actually will of course.