Pretend I have a child who shows signs of violence. He always hits his sister. He gets into fights with the neighbors' kids. He tortures animals. He does it all.
One day my child wanders far from home & kills somebody in the next town. The people of this town question if I knew my child was like this. I say, "Yes, but the rest of my family are all nonviolent. It's just him; he is the bad one." My neighbors also explain they knew my child was like this, but they never asked me to do anything about it. They didn't like it, but for some reason they didn't try to stop it. My child's school teacher had even known about it but not tried to contact me about this problem.
The people in the next town then start accusing people from my town of promoting violence. Some even call us a violent group of people. But wait a minute; we're innocent. All the violence was caused by this one child --not by us!
Doesn't it seem like everyone who witnessed but said nothing shares responsibility?
Islam
2007-06-07 09:48:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Power = Responsbility. You have power over that for which you are responsbile, and you are responsible for that over which you have power.
Every person in this scenario who had the power to do something, even if it was just to say something or point out that the child needed help, they are responsible to that degree.
2007-06-07 09:56:57 · answer #1 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a metaphor.
The kid is liable, obviously in this country he would not be tried as an adult.
It is more the parents fault than anyone else (besides the child). You should not rely on anyone to raise your child or tell you how do to so.
It would be nice for some help from friends, neighbors, teachers, etc. but, they cannot be blamed at all for this act.
2007-06-07 09:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by Greg L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would be responsible unless you kept trying to stop his actions. The Old Testament mentions several instances where this is shown; the priest Eli (I Samuel), King David (II Samuel, I believe), and in Proverbs.
2007-06-07 09:59:44 · answer #3 · answered by rillegas08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he was your child and you knew of all his violent tendencies AND did not seek any psychiatric therapy for him then you most definitely bear some responsibility. So do any others, to a lesser degree, teachers, etc. who did not refer him for some kind of help.
2007-06-07 09:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by cashmere 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Children who refuse to obey their parents must be executed:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21
2007-06-07 09:52:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Horrible analogy. Far too simplistic. Life is WAY more complicated than that.
2007-06-07 09:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by amazingly intelligent 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As the adage goes, "All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
2007-06-07 09:53:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes parents/creators should be held responsible, I get it.
2007-06-07 09:53:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
how the hell are you responsible for the actions of another person?
2007-06-07 09:53:00 · answer #9 · answered by blackroserequiem 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because we can't see into the future.
2007-06-07 09:53:13 · answer #10 · answered by expertless 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋