Human Minds Are Not Morally Caused By Kurt Grey

But, as Americans we are focused on the inanimate object of a gun than what drove the person to do this. Baum expresses his feelings in this text by saying it is basically Americans fault by not blaming the person. The fact that we blame the gun deflects the person who used the gun. So, this explains why some shootings happen.

Individuals in life or death situations should not be held accountable for their action. They are obviously going to want to be alive and happy, and not die or live in misery, so victims would most likely do whatever it takes to survive. Whoever made the decisions weren’t fully thinking it through because we all develop mentally at a different age for children and adults. Individuals who are in life or death situations don’t put themselves in that positions purposely to where they know they can die. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice like what happened in “The Seventh Man”

Many accidents that occur in the wilderness happen because of people’s lack of good decisions, and the cost of the rescue can put other people’s lives in danger. Making unnecessary risks to save someone in a situation that never had to happen is why people should be held accountable for their actions in a life-or-death situation. However, many other people think that they shouldn’t be held accountable. Both perspectives think that their argument is right, but the facts are clear: people should be held accountable for their actions, you should be responsible for what you choose to do.

Our common practice of thinking of others and ourselves as accountable is simply not justified!

Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that each individual must take responsibility for his or her own actions. The must not blame guns for problems caused by people. .

The idea of blame, defined as, “A particular kind of response (e.g. emotion), to a person, at fault, for a wrongful action,” plays a significant role in the study of crime, with respect to degrees of “fault.” In most modern societies, “criminal culpability,” or degrees of wrongdoing, makes a difference between the kinds of punishment one receives for his action(s). To be culpable for a crime, there must be a guilty act (Actus Rea), and a guilty mind (Mens Rea). Degrees of culpability often depends on the kind of mental state, (Mens Rea), one brings to the act in which he engaged. How much one is blameworthy for wrongful conduct depends in part on the state of mind in relation to the wrongful conduct. One’s mental state while engaging in wrongful conduct, which in a legal sense is determined by legislators, is characterized by the following terms: purposely, knowingly, recklessly and negligence.

Many people today wonder what caused Stephen Paddock to shoot 605 people, including himself. Acting like an average and moral man prior to the shooting, Paddock makes it difficult to understand the reason behind his actions. While we cannot deduce the exact cause of Paddock’s evil act, we can study the general roots of the immoral actions of good people through other historical examples. Although many believe that humans are innately good and act accordingly, events throughout history have proven that the potential self-gain that evil can bring drives seemingly good people to do horrible things when it outweighs in their sight the gratification of acting morally. Egocentrism or a lack of fear of punishment, because they cause a danger comparable to that caused by greed, can lead even the most moral person astray.

When people condemn others, the accuser affect themselves the most. Marc and Dianna MacYoung, the authors of No Nonsense Self-Defense, in their article “Blaming Justifies Your Own Bad Behavior” writes, “Unfortunately, blame is

There was an interesting observation on Legally Armed And Proud Of It … When there's a bombing, we blame the BOMBER. When there is a drunk driving accident, we blame the DRIVER. When there's a shooting, why do we blame the GUN? The point is well taken - the problem is the gunman and that's where the focus must be.

Some of the deadliest shootings occurred in the United States between 1984 to 2015. Approximatley 697 citizens were killed and 489 wounded from gun violence (latimes.com). Who or wht is to blame in these situations, the weapon or the individuals that used them to commit the crime.

After the school shooting in Newtown, CT, had made a deep impact because of the victims were children in elementary school. The proof that no one was truly safe had caused an uproar on a complete ban on guns and stricter laws. In Seitz-Wald’s article, “The Answer Is Not More Guns,” at the beginning the statements of Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, in response to the Sandy Hook incident. He writes, “Pratt said this weekend that ‘gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands’ for preventing law-abiding citizens from bringing guns into schools” (Seitz-Wald). The blaming of a group of people who are seeking more control of guns are the reason that the shooting was as bad as it turned out is far-fetched. To make a hasty generalization of a group of people because they made it more difficult to protect the children is completely unfounded. According to the book, “Everything’s an Argument,” defines hasty generalization as “an interference drawn from insufficient evidence. It also forms the basis for most stereotypes about people or institutions” (p.80). In the article, “The Case for More Guns (and More Gun Control),” written by Goldberg provides the one point of view that not many people can truly understand the victim. He interviews Stephen Barton, survivor of the movie theater shooting in Aurora, CO,

We are surrounded by unexplainable horrors: gang violence and murder; hurricanes and other natural disasters cause hundreds of casualties; giant passenger planes crash into the ocean and hundreds die terrifying deaths. Justice and our search for moral peace seemingly require us to find an answer for these tragedies even though we subconsciously know that conclusive answers may not exist. Nonetheless, we need to blame someone. The courts often cannot decisively resolve who is to blame and even when there is closure, we generally have no cure other than imprisonment or compensation to make things right again. Efforts to assign blame often lead to suffering while the failure to make the effort leads to some lasting damage to the soul, both

Mill writes, “…the individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so

In Candide, the main character’s major revelation to this idea is with his loyal companion Martin. The two conversed, with the deterministic Martin arguing that to blame humans for their actions is as absurd as blaming hawks for eating pigeons. Candide, a strong believer in the philosophy of compatibilism, believed that humans could change their ways as they aren’t governed by animalistic natural laws as hawks are (Voltaire 76). Deterministically speaking, it’s seemingly believed in both of these works that people should not be held morally accountable for actions that are out of their control. In essence, Martin believes the ways of man are as set in stone as those of hawks, but only for Candide to think otherwise. From the viewpoint of Candide and his mentor Pangloss, humans are

every action we do is of our own design, and therefore we are morally responsible for the result of those actions. Of course there are exceptions such as being held at gunpoint, being hypnotized or driven by some psychological disorder. No-one would hold you at fault for actions you were forced to commit, but we do hold you responsible for other actions, ones we feel they were free to make. We feel appalled when we see someone kill, or act in an amoral way. This feeling - Campbell thinks - is what shows we must have free will; because without free will we can’t be held responsible for our actions. Yet when you see someone do something you as “why did you do that?” or “what made you do that?”; we ask for the