(July 17, 2014 at 3:26 am)Aractus Wrote: No, I think it's appropriate to revoke any given while he was a sex-offender, but not after the last convicted offence took place. As I said, all it does is add to the culture of seeing convicted persons as life-long criminals not worthy of the upper, middle, lower or working classes.
I don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other on this issue, I can understand your points about vilifying criminals for eternity and I agree with you to a certain extent.
However what I think you have to bare in mind is that Rolf was only just recently convicted. You say that he shouldn't have any awards stripped after his last offence took place, but if he was caught and convicted at the right time he wouldn't have been a free man who was able to gain such awards in the first place. He's effectively been living and earning these awards on borrowed time. I think it's at the discretion of whoever gives out such awards. I think they do have the right to strip awards from people who could give their organisation or whatever a bad name.
