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    Should parents be held responsible for their children’s actions? Do you have siblings at home? Have you ever gotten in trouble for something you’ve never done? It’s not a good feeling. If you don’t want to be blamed nor punished for something you didn’t commit why should parents? As violence by juveniles has increased in recent years‚ the debate about parents’ legal responsibility for children’s behavior has escalated. Shootings‚ gang violence‚ drugs‚ alcohol these are very few things that children

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    Dipsy Trejo Dr. Yvette de la Vega Florida National University Should Parents be Held Responsible for the Crimes of Their Children? A crime is an act committed that goes against all laws and policies. A person who commits a crime is subject to legal punishment. This is a fact that is known globally by all individuals; both children and adults and yet the percentage of crimes committed per year continue to rise. When it comes to children specifically‚ the number of crimes committed annually is exceedingly

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    Should Bullies be held Criminally Responsible for their Action? Bullying is like the plague that is easily spread from kids. “A group of classmates yelled insults and then hurled a can at her before speeding off. Phoebe walked home‚ went into a closet and hanged herself.” This means that a girl was bullied and then she hanged herself. So the quote tells that bullying a is dangerous and must be stopped. Bullying is a dangerous thing that can affect everyone. Bullying must be stopped or else there

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    Should Parents Be Held Responsible for Their Children’s Needs and Actions? There are many pros and cons over the argument on whether parents should be held responsible for their children’s actions or not. Some people claim that yes parents should because they are the authority figure in that child’s life‚ while others say no‚ believing that if the child can choose to do something wrong then they must be held accountable‚” if parents are found liable for their children’s actions when they are young

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    Suicide-A morally responsible action? The suicide culture in Japan has always been a prominent issue‚ and is held in a peculiar view by many. 30‚000 Japanese commit suicide annually (McCurry‚ 2014)‚ making Japan the 8th country with the highest suicide rates (WHO‚ 2014). This “suicide culture” stems from Japan’s historical roots— the warrior bushido honour code which justifies one’s basis to committ suicide. Can suicide be considered a morally responsible action this way? Or is it a beautiful death

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    Should a business be held socially responsible? The demand for how businesses do their operations needs to change. As of right now‚ the business model suggests that we pursue profit by any entrepreneurial means and cut costs at any expense. For the most part businesses over the latter half of the twentieth century have based their idea of how to run a company off of Milton Friedman’s theories and classical neo-liberal economic thinking. I am suggesting however‚ that we take a different route for

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    raising children. They are there to teach them right from wrong and how to behave in order to raise them into successful men and women that today’s society can relate to; rather than juvenile delinquents that this world discriminates upon. It is the parent’s responsibility to instill values into their young children because as the children grow it becomes their responsibility to make their own decisions since one day they will have to face the real world on their own. So I believe parents should not

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    We all know what bullying is. We usually tend to think of it as some huge kid threatening to beat you up if you don’t give them your lunch money. But sometimes‚ bullying goes so much further than that. Sometimes bullies go too far‚ and their victims make the unfortunate choice of ending their own lives. As awful as it is‚ it happens every day‚ and the worst part about it is those bullies aren’t held legally accountable for their actions‚ but they should be. Bullying is a form of harassment. It damages

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    Being held accountable for your actions you did in a life-or-death situation is as mindless as somebody going to jail for something they didn’t do. So people when in a life-or-death situation should not be held responsible for what they do for survival because in order to survive‚ people must do what they need in order to survive. To start‚ if people were to be held accountable‚ people in a life-or-death situation would just end up dead because they wouldn’t want to do anything because it would

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    Should tobacco companies be held responsible for smoking-related illnesses and deaths? I. Introduction A. Should tobacco companies be held responsible for smoking related illnesses? In most cases I believe they should be held liable. Most Americans ask this question and want to know about cigarette companies and why they are allowed to keep selling these products that cause health problems. B. Most people that were smokers way back in the days before they actually had to label their

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