Given a Second Chance In Life
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
April 13, 2008 1:22pm CST
I am sitting here watching the show Twice in a Lifetime while mylotting.
For those of you who haven't seen the show, it is best on the premise that every one deserves a second chance, a chance to change their life, turn it around and make the best of it.
What happens is someone dies in the show and then they go in front of a judge in heaven, I guess this was based on the idea of St. Peter at the gate judging a person's actions before admitting them into heaven.
But the twist in this show is that the person's life is judged but is given three days to go back to earth at an earlier time and correct the wrong, or the mistake or the piece that was missing, thus changing their complete life and then they live out the new life.
Although in real life we don't come back to change our life over and make the best of it, do you think that everyone deserves the right to have a second change and make the best of it.
now don't say yes so easily, think it through,
do you give everyone a second chance?
what about the murderer who has served his time,
the pedophile who has also served his time,
the x hooker who is trying to make a new life for herself and yet the neighbourhood still shuns her?
do we really give people a second chance, why or why not?
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8 responses
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
22 Apr 08
Now that is a niffty question. While in most cases I do think that everyone would deserve a second chance I have my heart saying whoa! hold up! Why should child molesters rappist,murders and other such people get a second chance just to do these things all over again?? But then brain saying that maybe they learned their lesson or under different circumstances tha tmaybe they wouldn't make the same choices(some of them) and those are the ones that might deserve a second chance, Like I would give the exhooker a second chance because she made it how she could and if things were different I am almost sure she wouldn't use her body to make money. So maybe the repeat offenders such as murders and rapist and molesters don't deserve a second chance because they had theres when they got out the forst time and didn't change so they should lose the priledge but who am I to make such a judgement such as this?
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
25 Apr 08
I think that in almost every situation a person could be given a second chance, now if the murderer is still laughing like charles manson, no but some have really regretted what they have done, some have turned to god in jail and really are changed people, It is not my place to judge them over again when society already did, and so I leave that up to God, but that is just my opinion.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Should rapist,molesters,abusers,killers,etc..get three strikes out before they are considered unsafe to be let back into society or should just because they are repeaters for 3rd time(at getting caught anyhow)be able to walk among those who could be their next victim maybe? I am not against people who have been in prison I can't be because I have family that have been in prison my stepdad,and 2 brothers. thankfully only once each. I am talking about those who get let out and never learn their lesson and keep repeating and repeating and ending back in jail for it when they get caught atleast. I know we shouldn't judge because I wouldn't want to be judged by the things I do. I know the world isn't perfect and I don't think I would want it to be, but should society keep putting people on the streets that may victimize another being? Manson is one scary dude, and I am just glad even though it was before my time am glad that he got caught and put away because so many people lost their lives because of him and his followers bloodbath of killings. Sad the things like that happened.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
16 Apr 08
but not all of them do it again, are they to be hounded all their lives after they repaid their debt to society?
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
16 Apr 08
i think there are some cases, where the person really deserve a second chance. when you get something wrong, you think you should be given a second chance.
will you not second chance to a student who failed?
But will you give a second chance to someone who broken your heart to pieces without any fault of yours?
so it depends on the intensity.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
16 Apr 08
yes it can, but for most things in life I truly believe that people deserve a second chance.
If you are a divorced person, who you like like to think that nobody will ever want you again, because they say you failed in that first marriage and therefore you will never be good in a marriage again,
that to me is not fair, each marriage is different, each couple is different.
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@Modestah (11177)
• United States
16 Apr 08
Whether we deserve a second chance or not I do not know, I tend to think it is not an inalienable right.... but God in His Great mercy gives us all another chance with each day we rise anew. It is up to us to take that and do the best with it.... how often I fail.
IT would be good for us to show the same mercy to others that we beg of from God.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Apr 08
You have made a very good point, if we would just show others the mercy we ask from God for ourselves we would be doing the right thing.
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@Esoteric1 (863)
• Canada
14 Apr 08
Wow that actually sounds like a good show, I don't know why I've never paid it any attention ... my loss I guess. That does sound like St. Peter ... tho it also sounds like Ma'at or Qin Shu Pao and many others in various religions. I do think people should get second chances but only if they genuinely deserve them even the murderers and rapist etc. Therein would lie another problem however ... who would decide if they deserve it or not. I don;t know if I answered this correctly I mean the way I intended to as it is a very hard question and very thought provoking.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
16 Apr 08
but would you give somebody a second chance? Thanks for the info about the other religious figures.
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@Fishmomma (11658)
• United States
13 Apr 08
I'm aware that I don't give many people a second chance to change their life. I am trying to be more understanding; however, there are times it goes against all of my beliefs and I can't forgive the person.
I mentioned a women cheating on her husband a few days ago and still can't forgive her actions. She hurt her ex-husband badly, the man that had the affair with her, as he didn't know she was married and everyone else that took sides in the divorce. She wanted me to say she is a wonderful person and I couldn't do it.
Some people are more forgiving than me, but I don't think anyone should forgive a person that does terrible things to a child. The pedophile shouldn't have rights. This person harmed an innocent child and now the child feels like they did something wrong.
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