Why Is Vandalism wrong?

Question

Well im doing a essay because i did vandalism and i need yallz help why it is wrong plz help

Answer 1

In this country we are allowed several freedoms and one of them is to be free to do pretty much anything as long as it doesn't negatively affect someone else. Vandalism is wrecking/destroying some one else's property. Vandalism is a crime because the criminal has decided to deface the property of someone else who will have to repair the damage. Vandalism is, in a way, like stealing because if, for example, I just smash someones car to pieces I am stealing it from them. They will have to buy a new car and it will cost them not only money, but it will cost them time as well. Vandalism isn't all about the money; it is about the time it will take to fix the problem, but it is also about the emotions. If your car has been vandalized do you feel safe leaving it out in the street anymore? Do you still have faith that people will do the right thing? That is why vandalism is a crime.

Answer 2

Some poor slob has to clean or repair the damage done by some little punk who thinks he or she is "making a statement against the man" or is just a spoiled little punk or punkette that needs a good spanking in front of lots of their friends.
Every piece of property is owned by someone and when it's a school or other public building, it picks the pockets of every hard working taxpayer in the district in a very direct way. Besides, vandalism makes any neighborhood look like a ghetto filled with lazy dirtbags. Property values go down because nobody wants to live there. Then businesses move out and take the jobs with them. Being poor is no excuse for being a vandal and it helps KEEP people poor.

Answer 3

It's a simple concept, really. If you own something, something that you worked to get, or create, such as a house or a car, or a big painting that you made yourself, it's your property. You have the right to control what happens to that house, car, or painting.

Now if you decide to paint your car your favorite color, that's cool. But what if you woke up one morning and found out someone had painted a logo on your car, or a gang symbol, spray-painted in black or yellow, or something you hated?

In that action, that person deprieved you of the right to control your own property. Doesn't that seem wrong to you? Do you think that the severity of that deprivation might have something to do with the value of the object, the expense of returning it to the color that you wanted it to be, or if it was broken, the condition it was before?

Since most of us spend our days working to make money so that we can buy the things we want, by having them destroyed or altered, in a sense time has been stolen from us also. The time that we had to work to earn the money, the time we spent getting the object, and the time that it stayed in the altered state before we had the damage removed or repaired. That time cannot be returned to us, ever. Vandals rob us of time from our lives.

Answer 4

Vandalism is not a victimless crime. Someone will have to pay for the damage even if the perp gets away with it. We would live in a very lousy world if everyone went around committing vandalism. It lowers the value of property and can be expensive.

Answer 5

"It is easier to pull down than to build up" - "Anonymous" (as far as I know).

People have spent time and effort and money building the wall, statue, playing-field, whatever, somebody vandalises.

Much less time and effort - and often just the cost of a can of spray paint - goes into destroying what may have taken years to make.

You are destroying an item or an area of public enjoyment, instead of adding to it.

I remember two instances - a young friend of a friend complaining how an area of reserve was no good going to anymore - too many trees, benches and other things had been destroyed. And he and his friends used to go there and do 'wheelies'/'dougnuts'/whatever your group calls them, in the grass with their cars. Now it was all dirt, there was no place to spin the cars and nowhere for the mates to sit and watch!!

DUHH!!!

And a young guy admitted on TV news, as he was recovering from a slashed tendon received from a broken bottle in the sand, he and his mates used to go to that beach and smash their empties for fun.
The lesson he learned - he wasn't going back to that beach next time the mates wanted a party!!

DUHH!!!

(Couldn't he click it might have been one of his own empties that cut his foot?!?!?)

"Vandalism" got its name when the Vandal tribe sacked the City of Rome in the 5th Century (I think it was 410AD). It is destructive, not constructive, so "wrong" by its very nature.

Answer 6

It is truly a shame that you don’t understand. If you did you wouldn’t need help to write this essay. In fact if you knew you wouldn’t want anyone else involved with writing it.

Vandalism harms other people. To harm other people is wrong both ethically as well as legally. Either way you are responsible. That responsibility is something for which you must pay. I hope the first installment of that payment is going to the people whom you vandalized, asking for their forgiveness and then paying for what you did.

Answer 7

First you vandalized, now you want other people to assist in writing your essay. If you don't know why vandalism is wrong, you need another punishment, because this one will not work.

Answer 8

Ethics are based on empathy.

That is to say, in order to understand why something is wrong, just imagine how you would like it if someone did that (or something comparable) to you.

Unless of course you wouldn't mind being vandalized, in which case there isn't a very good way to explain it.

Answer 9

The word/action vandal originated in India, the details elude me right-now,but it would give u a good start for revising/re-searching the subject's origin's.look it up on the internet or at the local library

Answer 10

Because you ruined other people's stuff. If I came to your house and broke your computer or spray painted your car, you'd be pissed off, wouldn't you? When you vandalize public property, you're ruining everyone's stuff and costing us tax dollars to fix it. When (if) you ever get a job and start paying taxes, you'll understand.