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Please, that is a red herring if ever I saw one. You are trying to compare apples and cars. In the first place, neither bad credit nor bankruptcy prevents lenders from making additonal loans. It just increases the interest rate and reduces the amounts typically loaned until the person builds up his credit again. Second, systems are in place that allow a person to rebuild his credit, not the least of which is that most "bad credit" can only remain in credit reports for seven (7) years, while bankruptcy is 7 to 10 years.
Now unless your state offers some form of record expungement process (not all do, and several that do only allow it for arrests that don't lead to charges, and/or charges that don't lead to actual convictions), your criminal record is public and follows you for life.
Then, as already demonstrated by your comments, most people presume that if you've been convicted of a crime, you are a "criminal threat" for the rest of your life. Of course if you are already pre-judged and can't escape the effects of such prejudice, why not continue in a life of crime?
Personally I find it a strange sort of attitude for people to hold such prejudices, since I believe that just about everyone old enough to know what they are doing has committed some level of criminality in their life, they just haven't been caught. It could be as simple as regularly "fudging" your tax returns, smoking a little pot, committing acts of vandalism, or it could be something much more serious as in sexual deviancy, assault, even murder.
My view is that punishment should fit the crime, but once the punishment is completed and society allows you to return then society in obligated to accept you back without reservations.
pedophiles too?