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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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    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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    At What Age Should Teenagers Be Allowed to Take Their Own Decisions? The main problem with questions like this one is their‚ on the one hand‚ ambiguity and‚ on the other hand‚ relentlessness with which those who ask them require to be answered. What kind of decisions? About what? If we think along the lines presupposed by the question‚ we should define the unified age when teenagers should be let to both choose what they would have for breakfast and whom to marry. The point of view behind this

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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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    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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    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 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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    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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