People Must Assume Responsibility for Their Actions

When turning on the television, radio or simply reading the newspaper, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, and other such tragedies. It is a rare occasion to go throughout a day in this world and not hear of these situations. What should society do about this alarming trend? Not only committing crimes wrong, but today, it is signing your life over to the government, with the current trend of terrorism. That is a …

…transformation. Must someone do wrong for an individual to be punished. We should not punish for the sake of punishing. Individuals need to accept the consequences of any action that participate in. Individual behavior is a responsibility that we all must accept. If punishment was solely based on punishing the wrongdoers, there would be no one left to punish. We have all made mistakes in life, we now must accept those mistakes as our own.