Topic 12

I think that we should be held responsible for our actions. Though sometimes it leads to bad consequences, most of us know well enough what will happen when we do something. Perhaps it's not the exact thing, but it's something similar. Being ignorant depends. If a person is ignorant because they don't know any better (due to being a small child or something), then they should not be held responsible. In the case of the "legally insane", I have no idea. I guess it depends on the insanity level and type.


The lack of action depends, as well. If the reason is that you had no other choice, then no. If the reason was that you were just being lazy, then yes. How to determine the reason is beyond me. This stabbing, I believe that yes, they are indirectly responsible, due to the fact that they were either a) Too lazy, or b) Too busy. That's no excuse to let a man lie dying on the sidewalk. Obviously, the person who actually stabbed him was directly responsible. Society doesn't help, I can say that much. Perhaps I've been hearing false tales, but in Canada, almost all houses have at least one to two guns. But nobody ever hears about shootings! That's not to say they don't happen; it just means that they don't focus on the horrible things in the news. I don't blame the seller/previous owner of the knife (unless they were in cahoots with the stabber), because the likelihood is that they had no idea that the knife would be used for such nefarious purposes.