sagacious said:This.Ftaghn To You Too said:Because criminals should be condemned for life and ostracized from society, and it's morally wrong to offer them legitimate employment!
Truly the Elizabethans were correct in mutilating vagrants to indicate their crimes as well as making it illegal to give them shelter. That is the standard we should follow!
All you people saying it's wrong to employ a criminal in a LEGAL job are part of the reason that ex cons keep committing crimes. They're not welcomed by 'legal' society, so they turn to illegal means to FUCKING FEED THEMSELVES. Criminals have families too, you dumbshits.
And even if they're still committing crimes... giving them legit employment will give them hope of an out. I imagine they're not too fond of their chosen career involving being hunted by the state. If you're NEVER supposed to employ someone who is still committing crimes, what are they supposed to do? Stop being a criminal and just take a few months to be unemployed and starve? Then will their penance be done in the eyes of you, oh righteous inquisitor?
oh and inb4 someone calls me a criminal or criminal sympathizer just for speaking out for people dealt a shit hand by life/society/etc. I've never done a crime and never known someone that was sent to jail, I just have a magical thing called human decency. Try it out sometime you pitiless fucks. You disgust me.
Edit: On topic, I just hope they don't give wooden performances. Authentic or not, they're not actors. Though it could be good, maybe even great. Leave it to Rockstar to try something unconventional. I'll be looking forward to seeing how it works out.
Being in a gang isn't, in itself, illegal, to my understanding. It is the activities the gang members themselves perpetrate that are illegal. So, I could give a gang member a job, even if I know that he's in a gang. As long as I did not have knowledge of or cover up any illegal activity he performed while in my employ, it would be fine.maidenm said:There's... there's something I need to ask. Is it legal to hire criminals? As in WANTED criminals? Those who are at large, still on the street, doing criminal things?
They mentioned one got out of jail a few days before, I'm all for giving that guy a job but... taking someone directly from the street? Not knowing, or even being fully aware of that this person was involved in violent crime recently? Is that really something that is ok? Harboring a fugitive and everything?
Of course, I hope rockstar knows what it's doing, I really do. Giving former criminals a chance to go legit is a wonderful thing to do, but I hope they are not going to protect these people if they commit a crime while the voice acting is still being done.
What makes you think that professional voice actors do anything positive with their money?Desert Punk said:And what makes you think the money will be used for anything positive?
Ok? I guess that will matter when you're the progenitor of your own master race of upstanding citizens.Desert Punk said:And I would personally prefer to offer a job to someone who isnt a criminal.
And apparently the word 'obvious' doesn't apply here either because I was clearly being sarcastic. But you clearly know so much about the situation already, all you needed to hear was the word 'gang' and you divined that they were all low-life trash. And stop throwing around the word 'retard' like some kind of retard.Desert Punk said:And the term 'Baller' doesn't apply here, these are just another handful of retards, not criminals that are living large.
They gave them a real job. A chance to earn some money without breaking the law. What's wrong with that?Baldr said:As a game developer I don't think it a great idea/ethical to support criminal gangs. Reformed gang members I would probably be ok with, but taking actual criminals is another.
Exactly. Why shouldn't they get a chance? I seriously doubt that they chose that life.chadachada123 said:Good. Give them some honest, easy money for a change, and maybe they can one day get themselves out of the whole gang business with their new skill, like one of the freaking main characters in the game.
To be fair, I hardly think they asked them to renounce their life of crime and become seasoned voice actors.Ftaghn To You Too said:Because criminals should be condemned for life and ostracized from society, and it's morally wrong to offer them legitimate employment!
If anything, it's the opposite. Rockstar has hired them because they're legitimately scary dudes who are actually involved in the gang lifestyle. To them, it's probably yet another example of how crime pays - if they weren't gangsters, they wouldn't have earned this money. It's legitimate employment, sure, but legitimate employment based solely on the fact that they are criminals. I don't think that's as positive a message as some in the this thread are trying to claim.Zachary Amaranth said:To be fair, I hardly think they asked them to renounce their life of crime and become seasoned voice actors.Ftaghn To You Too said:Because criminals should be condemned for life and ostracized from society, and it's morally wrong to offer them legitimate employment!
Ugh, so much fail.Maiev Shadowsong said:"Former gang members" fine. Good. People getting a job. But "gang members?" No. You don't give money to criminals. Stop being a piece of shit thug and THEN get a job. I'm not paying to support your disgusting, parasitic lifestyle.
Or, this is (more) bullshit marketing and they hired some people that once stood in the same building as someone that new a guy that was a gang member, like marketers love to do. Or they're reformed criminals and that was left out for more buzz.
Either way, no matter the case, not buying your game, Rockstar. Supporting crime, trying to support crime and being taken for a ride, or supporting marketing that I despise. Take your pick. - 2 sales for my boyfriend and I.
Go look up Danny Trejo. Seriously.alphamalet said:I really hope this is some sort of joke. Real gang members? Seriously?
Boy! I'm sure the money that these gang members received for their voice acting talent is going straight to charity!
I really don't understand how a person can morally do this.
Like Baldr said, reformed gang members are understandable, but actual criminals are a little ridiculous.
Fucking thank you. This could even lead to certain routes. I mean shit, now they can add a voice acting credit to a resume, and not only that, it's with a major AAA blockbuster household name of a game. This could fucking save someone, and a bunch of dildos are acting like gangsters only spend money on criminal shit.chuckman1 said:I'm with you I don't see why everybody's hating you all sound like you grew up in gated communities.chadachada123 said:Good. Give them some honest, easy money for a change, and maybe they can one day get themselves out of the whole gang business with their new skill, like one of the freaking main characters in the game.
Those of you saying that they shouldn't be employed...what other way are they supposed to reform themselves if no one will hire them because "Hurr funding gang activity"?
Maybe they can go a week without making crack and just peacefully smoke blunts with their crew or whatever they'll do.
Many people turn to this life because of unemployment so even a short job is great.
Plus I'd rather it be like "Fuck you I'll spray you, bust, whatever"-real g than "Oh ya boy ya imma pull my gat now urrgh im so g"-guy that's never seen the hood
What happened to:Maiev Shadowsong said:I'd rather drug pushing pimps and thugs don't get paid out of my pocket. I'd rather they end up in prison (something I am happy to pay for) and rethink their life. Many a person lives in poverty and claws out of it without holding up cashiers or selling women into sexual slavery.
Gang members can get fucked.
Give people a chance of escaping the criminal cycle, NAH! fuck that, send them back to prison and give them more reason to continue a life of crime.Maiev Shadowsong said:Violence breeds violence.