How can any person hurt an innocent person for any reason?

Question

Why cant we as a human race decide that there are certain human rights that should not be violated not matter what. And all governments and people can support it. For starters no harming of children.

Answer 1

I agree that it would be a really great thing if we could do that. But who is considered one of the innocent people? And how do you define hurt? Physical only, or also mental? As long as there is greed, hate, intolerance, and other bad feelings out there people are going to continue hurting innocent people. Not because most of them want to, but merely because they want to get their way, and if the easiest road involves hurting an innocent, then so be it. It's a sad state of affairs, but I agree with you I hope that day comes (where people don't harm the innocent of course).

Answer 2

There are a lot of good reasons why we can't agree on something vague like "no harming of children."
1. Like a previous poster said, maybe children want to face danger. Maybe we can't let kids fight wars, but letting them fall down and scrape their knee once in a while might actually be good for them. I think kids today are so fat because they don't have good places to just run around and be kids.
2. What about spanking? Does that count as "harm?" I think the decades long debate on that still isn't over.
3. What about stabbing them with a needle to immunize them against a disease? The phrase "no pain, no gain" comes to mind.
4. What about neglect.? Some people would say sending your kids to public schools is child abuse. Should we ban public schools because some people think they "harm" children? Other people think letting their kids play violent video games is neglect. Should we keep children away from violent video games just because some people think it's harmful?

Like Bill Clinton sort of said, "How are we defining harm?"

Answer 3

There is a human emotion called transference whereby we as humans sometimes take our frustrations out on the innocent. This catalyst may have happened as a result of you having been abused in your past, or someone hurt you and you did not have an appropriate way of channeling your feelings in an effective way. I am not backing this practice, but it occurs daily. We have to look at the reasons we acted out. What catalyst came prior to us lashing out at someone? We tend to lash out at those we have power or control over. Remember kicking the dog because something went wrong as a child. You may have been punished falsely by your parent so you kicked the dog. That same practice and principle goes on in life unchecked, and thereby out of control.

Answer 4

oh for the love of god, im a kid and i hate it when people say not harming children. like were pets or somthin. ****, kids faught in the Revolution and in the Civil War, and now were treated like, well children. what about when some japanese kid comes at you with a grenade? when a disalutioned arab teen runs toward you with an explosive-filled backpack? when a 15year-old tory aims a loaded gun at you? when some yankee boy no more than 12 levels a 14inch blade at you?

Answer 5

well, for starters the human race is not run under a democracy, so a universal standard will not be agreed upon. second, any agreed upon standard will always be violated, that's why we have police... not to stop the violence, but to punish those who break it. we'll always break the law... that's universal.

Answer 6

Well the US of A signed the the rights of a child years ago . So what happened ?

Answer 7

No matter what you do, there will always be people in the world who don't care about others' rights.

Answer 8

the goverment is insoluable. they think more of the animal race and the war than what they do about their own people that are keeping your country alive. bush is war,war war,.