Let's talk about responsibility.
A person is responsible for his or her own actions. Unless:
*The person is under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
*The person is temporarily or permanently insane according to the legal definition.
*The person was coerced by another person.
*The person is under 18 years of age (In some situations; in others, minors are still held responsible.).
There may be a few other exceptions, but these are the main legal ones. Do you agree with all of these? What about if a person is ignorant of the consequences of his or her actions? Should the person still be held responsible?
What about a LACK of action? If you could have prevented something from happening, but you didn't, are you responsible for it? For example: this weekend, on the news there was a story about a man who was stabbed in Portland, and collapsed, bleeding, on the sidewalk. Several people walked by and did nothing to help -- one person took a photo on his phone; another lifted up the body and then put it back down and left -- and the man died, at least partly because nobody called 911. Were those people responsible for his death? Or was it the person who stabbed him? Or was it the society that created a culture of violence, and also allows people to stay out of other people's problems? Was it the person who sold the knife to the stabber? Was it the victim for starting the fight? The police for not stopping it? The parents of the stabber for not teaching him or her right from wrong? God's fault? The devil's?
Answers of some kind by next Monday, please.
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ReplyDeletei think its horrible and not right that people just walked by the guy that was stabbed its so aggravating they just think of themselves. if it were them wouldn't they want to be helped if the y were laying helplessly stabbed on the street? its the stabbers and the people that walked by that are at fault for his death.it was the stabbers fault cause hes the one that stabbed him. and its the peoples fault that walked by because they could have helped him and saved his life. no one can control others actions such as the parents or whatever. i definitely think it wasn't gods or the devils fault because i don't believe that they are real. people should always be held responsible for their actions if they are ignorant of the consequences.
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