Depends. I believe anyone who began smoking before the risks of smoking were known and before the addictive properties were known should be able to sue the tobacco companies. People were mislead into believing a product was safe to use which the companies knew was not safe and purposely made more addictive. It has been shown that tobacco companies have purposely added flavorless substances such as sugar and ammonia for the express purpose to make the tobacco more addictive when burned. I
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Argumentative People should not be held accountable for their actions in life or death situations. Things that could occur unexpectedly is something that may happen. In life or death situations you act on the most reasonable thing that you could think of. It is normal for people to panic and make bad mistakes that they should not be held accountable for. In order to survive you have to do things that could be overwhelming to you. In Life of Pi an “Indian boy” is trying to survive a shipwreck
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morning/ evening/ afternoon to all of you. The topic of our debate is : should parents be held responsible for their children misbehaviour? I’ll first start by defining juvenile crime‚ it the habitual committing of criminal acts or offences by a young person‚ especially one below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible. I am now going to discuss the points why parents should be held responsible for their children misbehaviour. First‚ the children’s behaviour is the direct result of
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Huber‚ James Mr. Shipp English 2‚ Block 4 9-19-2024. Accountability Should people be held accountable for their actions? This is a question that people have debated and disagreed on. But the fact is‚ people should be held accountable for their actions. People putting themselves in harm’s way and needing people to get them out is their own fault and should have to pay some type of reparations for search and rescue operations if needed. One example is the story of the boy who swam through the cave
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2009 Should bartender be held responsible for the behavior of their patrons? According to Beth Benson of the Associated Content the duties of a bartender are to take the orders of their patrons‚ serve drinks‚ keep the shelves stocked‚ and to keep the bar clean. But after the patrons are served and have left the bar‚ is the bartenders’ job really done? According to the law in many states bartenders are responsible for the behavior of their patrons even after when they leave bar. Should a bartender
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the boss you are responsible for everything that occurs in your organization. As a senior leader of a company not only are you responsible for your own mistakes‚ you are also responsible for the mistakes made by your employees. Arguably‚ many would say that when he/she took on the responsibility of a senior leadership role to oversee the operations of an organization automatically comes with the responsibility for their employees’ actions. Nonetheless‚ I believe the CEO should be held criminally responsible
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how our actions become the things they are. Do we choose to like chocolate and hate vanilla? No. It isn’t our choice to lick what we like and dislike‚ it is all psychological. So if we dont have a control on our psychology‚ then how can we be morally responsible for the consequences of the actions that arise out of that psychology? In order for us to be morally responsible for our actions we have to have created our own psychology‚ but this is impossible. So since we never had control on what our character
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Yes people should be hold responsible for a life or death situation. Say if someone killed another human being or a living organism you would be hold accountable for their action. But it depends on what they did. They should be responsible for a life or death situation but it depends on what they did or did not do.“I am getting out there! I yelled to k... I was sure l had yelled loud enough but my voice did not seem to have reached (Murakami 139)”. In this case he is not responsible for his friend
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the issues‚ ‘at what age should children be held criminally responsible’‚ and ‘what are children’s influences growing up’. The minimum age that children are held criminally responsible is 10 years old in England‚ Wales and Ireland and only 8years old in Scotland. There have been many issues regarding this age limit and as it points out in Madge’s ‘Children In These Days’ (2006)‚ it is interesting that children and adults tended to agree on the ages at which children should be held criminally responsible:
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could go horribly wrong. And for that reason‚ people should be held accountable for their actions because it is obviously their fault for getting seriously hurt or injured during these sports. To begin with‚ People should be held accountable for extreme sports accidents. On page 126 from “Cost of Survival” states that “A lost climber or an injured base jumper may need help.” The base jumpers and climbers should be held accountable for their actions because that is their fault for taking the risk to
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