When Is Life Acceptable Moises Cortez P.4
When is violence an acceptable means of solving a problem? Violence is an acceptable means of solving a problem when there’s no last resort. There will be times when the problem will be too big or out of control and the last resort will be violence such as war. For example, during the Civil Rights Movement, the only way to make Americans aware of racism was violence, all those massacres, the lynching, and those marches where African Americans were brutally hurt and many times killed. Wise African Americans knew that if they gave themselves up for whites to hurt them for instance on national TV. Then that would help solve racial discrimination. So in many of these cases violence was an acceptable means for solving a problem. Mainly people have to understand why they are alive and what purpose they serve to themselves, to others, and to the world.
People need to know what life is worth sacrificing for. I would sacrifice my life for most importantly my family, and I would also sacrifice it for my country; just like those millions who also have for their country and their freedom. It is important to know what your life is worth sacrificing for because there will be cases when it’s important to know for example your daughter or son is about to die and he or she needs another heart or lung; you need to know that your sacrificing your life for someone else who has a life to live; you have already lived yours and you have to be willing to give it up for someone else that’s life is more important than yours.
What determines the value of people’s lives? The only person that determines the value of my life is God himself and also myself I’m the one who determines the value of my life, I’m the one who makes the choices and decisions therefore I’m the one who determines the value of my own life. In my beliefs I will always believe that God is with me wherever I am and wherever I go. He will be there when I make decisions and take chances in life. I determine the value of my life and God follows me through it.
And finally, people must know and comprehend the cost of why they attain liberty, peace, and democracy. People attain liberty, peace, and democracy at the cost of those who sacrifice their own lives for the freedom and pride of this country in which we live; such as War and Activists. We have freedom because of those people who died sweating blood and tears for our liberty and freedom. For instance, Martin Luther King died for African Americans rights in America, and Cesar Chaves who stood up for Mexican Americans who were treated unfairly and paid unfairly.
A criminal act is defined in many ways to different people; a criminal act to some people may be killing a person and to other it may be as if it was for a good reason. A criminal act should be something that affects everyone such as a war; that would be a criminal act because it affects everybody worldwide, war can affect how some people live and how they are seen by others.
In conclusion, I believe that people don’t know and don’t appreciate life; people take life for granted, people don’t appreciate that they have certain freedoms, people don’t appreciate that they can vote, people don’t appreciate that they have so many privileges for free, people are just ignorant. Instead people, have to know why they are alive and what purpose they serve to themselves, to others, and to the world.
