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RE: Forever damned, locked in place, inside static molds...
I am proof that people can (and do) change. Believe me, there's a time when you wouldn't have wanted anything to do with me. I would have put a bullet in you as soon as look at you. The penal system had absolutely NOTHING to do with my change.
Yes, I was actually intending this post to focus on the concept in general. The penal system was meant to be an example. It was not meant to encompass what I was thinking.
I was trying to get exactly at what you have indicated. People can change. We should give them the chance to do so. If they keep saying they changed, and show they have not then we can be less forgiving, but so many times in society these days people leave no room for redemption and change.
People tend to take a static view of human nature: "Once a crook, always a crook." People, in reality are more fluid. When I wrote my work on political theory I tried to identify some unalterable facet of human nature...something beyond the left/right, conservative/liberal paradigm. Those things change and so too can any other aspect of human nature, including behavior. Heraclitus wrote that everything is in a constant state of flux...I used this in my writing and it applied to EVERYTHING- especially human behavior.