Dick and Perry both make decisions that eventually lead them to the consequences they are faced with. Do family or childhood circumstances affect the decisions that people make? If yes, is this valid? If no, why not?
I believe that family does have a huge effect on the decisions people make but they can't blame their parents for raising them poorly. From the moment they became capable of taking care of themselves they should have been able to make up for their poor past by making intelligent decisions in their present for a better future.
Family does have a great influence because it's what molds you at the beginning of your life. If you are raised in a loveless home without any virtues or values engrained in your life, you will probably grow up to be a cold individual without respect for anyone or anything
Dearest KyrieS. again you are incorrect. Whereas family is the starting block it is just an advantage in life to have a good family, having a bad family isn't an excuse to be able to live a life of crime. Eventually everyone has the ability to overcome their personal disasters and achieve success.
Dudzy, It is not an excuse for a life of crime but it is a reason most of the criminals choose the life that they do. If you would be treated badly and abused as a child you will have a feeling of anger toward society inside of you. once again, its not an excuse and some may overcome it but it is really difficult and most people dont.
Family or childhood circumstances do affect your decisions because I grew up with a family who always told me what was right and what was wrong. My parents always taught me to make my decisions based on what I thought was morally right. I think Dick and Perry's circumstances led to their poor decisions.
Family and childhood circumstances do affect the decisions one makes when they get older. I was raised in a very loving family were values and morals are what´s most important. This has made me live a very honest life. Other people are not that lucky, and they are raised in unhealthy environments when they feel no love. I do believe that it is valid, because it is in your family where you learn how to behave and how to live your life. If you are not cared for, you will not know how to live your life correctly.
Emmit: I disagree with you, in some circumstances people are born without a sense of what is moral. A person who is born without a conscience can't be raised into a straight path.
i agree with the two comments above, your childhood may influence in the decisions you take throughout your life but it does not make it right to commit a crime. Like coffeelover22 i was born in a family that showed me what was right and what was wrong so that does help me in the decisions I take right now.
This issue is similar to the one of nurture vs. nature. The thing is that childhood is somewhat relevant, but in the end it's one's own decisions the ones that affect that person's personality. Maybe parents may teach the son or daughter to do something, but it's that person's own decisions that affect his or her actions.
Family and childhood circumstances both affect people's decisions over things. Things in people's childhood can affect their judgement because for example if a person used to rape someone, the person who got raped, would have a desire to hate the one who abused from him. Later on, the person who was raped could even murder the one who abused from him in his childhood. Family also affects individual judgement. For example, the way my parents have raised me, I would never do something that would hurt any member of my family.
Joel I agree with joelsnails, the decisions you make are really influenced by the family life you lived while you were a child. For example, if you get raped,you will want to seek revenge towards all rapers on the world, totally valid.
Blu: I agree with nikolay, many things we learn from our childhood and it does have a big influence in our lives and each one of us should be held responsible for their actions. Everything we are as an adult is somehow influenced by our raising. Dick and Perry's childhood is a pattern that is usually found in similar cases.
cooper: I must say that both nature and nurture play a role in thier development but that does not excuse thier actions as people who killed thier fellow citizens for simple monetary gain.
daddy t cooper maybe youre right but imagine your father constantly abused and opressed you whebn you were just a child, dont you think that you would live up to be an angry man full of anger and pitty insude of you? would you want revenge???, you can control your actions but not your mind and feelings....
Cooper: Imagine, thats a kids game, Many men and women have overcome childhood abuse to dominate thier respective career paths leaving the past where it belongs, in the past
MegaManx4 You can perfectly control your mind and feelings you are your own. That's why think before act is so commonly said. People can change at any given time, there is a word for it. Called self-control.
I agree with Cooper. Many people have overcome abuse and grown up to be good people. People that help others, people that try to stop that from happening to others. Even if you were treated badly in the past, it should stay there, in the past.
Cooper; exactly, Joel what you seem to be missing is that through sheer power of will a human being can accomplish what he wants regardless of your family handicaps
I agree with Cooper that it is indeed a combination of nature and nurture that determines WHO a person is, however it is a persons intrinsic will power which allows them to overcome external circumstance and everyone has that ability.
Family does make an important impact on a persons life. If you as a small boy/girl are mistreated, you will end up being very different than a person who wasn't. So, yes, childhood circumstances affect the decisions that people make.
Sugar2195: I believed that Perry and Dick's decision was really influenced by their childhood events. Both didn't have a stable life nor a stable family. I believe this created emotions of desperation,depression, madness and many more, and people act the way they are feeling.It is like a domino effect, one things affects the other and I believe this was the case of Perry and Dick that lead to the murder of The Clutter family.
A persons childhood has an enormous effect on their future actions, their childhood basically defines their attitude as grown ups, it defines their views and their beliefs, a man from privilege or good parents will most likely grow up to be successful and harmless to society, but a man raised alone, or by terrible parents will obviously be very different, he will feel some urge to get back at society or at life in some way, his beliefs will develop differently. Still, actions are not justified, only in the criminals mind.
Sugar2195: Tribunito I completely agree with you, the person's childhood has an enormous effect on their future actions and the person's personality. By experiencing bad things they with act badly.
Childhood affects every single person. Dick and Perry aren't the exception to that, especially Perry. Perry had a terrible childhood and that would be one of the main reasons for which why people take the decisions they have taken. If Perry wouldn't have had a terrible childhood, there's a big possibility that he wouldn't have become a criminal. Therefore, this shows that childhood does really affect the decision people make.
Family and childhood are the foundations of a person but you as a person decide what to do with what has been given to you. Perry and Dick were unhapy with their life but their are always options and killing four members of a family wasn't their only option. Perry's sister says so in a letter she sends to him when he's in prison. She had a tough childhood too but she did something of her life and she was happy.
Yes, people's character and personality is defined by the way people are raised. For example, my parents asked me to have the best grades possible and have a good discipline at school. This created the correct and right personality and character I should have and made me create good decisions. So, it is true that your decisions are affected by the way you are raised.
Dudzy
ReplyDeleteI believe that family does have a huge effect on the decisions people make but they can't blame their parents for raising them poorly. From the moment they became capable of taking care of themselves they should have been able to make up for their poor past by making intelligent decisions in their present for a better future.
KyrieS.
DeleteFamily does have a great influence because it's what molds you at the beginning of your life. If you are raised in a loveless home without any virtues or values engrained in your life, you will probably grow up to be a cold individual without respect for anyone or anything
Dudzy
DeleteDearest KyrieS. again you are incorrect. Whereas family is the starting block it is just an advantage in life to have a good family, having a bad family isn't an excuse to be able to live a life of crime. Eventually everyone has the ability to overcome their personal disasters and achieve success.
KyrieS.
DeleteDudzy, It is not an excuse for a life of crime but it is a reason most of the criminals choose the life that they do. If you would be treated badly and abused as a child you will have a feeling of anger toward society inside of you. once again, its not an excuse and some may overcome it but it is really difficult and most people dont.
coffeelover22
ReplyDeleteFamily or childhood circumstances do affect your decisions because I grew up with a family who always told me what was right and what was wrong. My parents always taught me to make my decisions based on what I thought was morally right. I think Dick and Perry's circumstances led to their poor decisions.
lovepizza94
ReplyDeleteFamily and childhood circumstances do affect the decisions one makes when they get older. I was raised in a very loving family were values and morals are what´s most important. This has made me live a very honest life. Other people are not that lucky, and they are raised in unhealthy environments when they feel no love. I do believe that it is valid, because it is in your family where you learn how to behave and how to live your life. If you are not cared for, you will not know how to live your life correctly.
Emmit:
DeleteI disagree with you, in some circumstances people are born without a sense of what is moral. A person who is born without a conscience can't be raised into a straight path.
coffeelover22
DeleteEmmit, you are not born with a conscience you are raised with certain beliefs that teach you what is right and what is wrong.
chicaMJ:
ReplyDeletei agree with the two comments above, your childhood may influence in the decisions you take throughout your life but it does not make it right to commit a crime. Like coffeelover22 i was born in a family that showed me what was right and what was wrong so that does help me in the decisions I take right now.
Nikolay
ReplyDeleteThis issue is similar to the one of nurture vs. nature. The thing is that childhood is somewhat relevant, but in the end it's one's own decisions the ones that affect that person's personality. Maybe parents may teach the son or daughter to do something, but it's that person's own decisions that affect his or her actions.
WesliSnais
ReplyDeleteFamily and childhood circumstances both affect people's decisions over things. Things in people's childhood can affect their judgement because for example if a person used to rape someone, the person who got raped, would have a desire to hate the one who abused from him. Later on, the person who was raped could even murder the one who abused from him in his childhood. Family also affects individual judgement. For example, the way my parents have raised me, I would never do something that would hurt any member of my family.
Joel
ReplyDeleteI agree with joelsnails, the decisions you make are really influenced by the family life you lived while you were a child. For example, if you get raped,you will want to seek revenge towards all rapers on the world, totally valid.
Blu: I agree with nikolay, many things we learn from our childhood and it does have a big influence in our lives and each one of us should be held responsible for their actions. Everything we are as an adult is somehow influenced by our raising. Dick and Perry's childhood is a pattern that is usually found in similar cases.
ReplyDeletecooper: I must say that both nature and nurture play a role in thier development but that does not excuse thier actions as people who killed thier fellow citizens for simple monetary gain.
ReplyDeletedaddy t
Deletecooper maybe youre right but imagine your father constantly abused and opressed you whebn you were just a child, dont you think that you would live up to be an angry man full of anger and pitty insude of you? would you want revenge???, you can control your actions but not your mind and feelings....
Cooper: Imagine, thats a kids game, Many men and women have overcome childhood abuse to dominate thier respective career paths leaving the past where it belongs, in the past
DeleteJoel
DeleteCooper, but how can you leave so easily tragic moments in life in the past? It isnt that simple, life isnt that simple
MegaManx4
DeleteYou can perfectly control your mind and feelings you are your own. That's why think before act is so commonly said. People can change at any given time, there is a word for it. Called self-control.
Platypus Rex
DeleteI agree with Cooper. Many people have overcome abuse and grown up to be good people. People that help others, people that try to stop that from happening to others. Even if you were treated badly in the past, it should stay there, in the past.
Cooper; exactly, Joel what you seem to be missing is that through sheer power of will a human being can accomplish what he wants regardless of your family handicaps
DeleteDudzy
DeleteI agree with Cooper that it is indeed a combination of nature and nurture that determines WHO a person is, however it is a persons intrinsic will power which allows them to overcome external circumstance and everyone has that ability.
El "EC"
ReplyDeleteFamily does make an important impact on a persons life. If you as a small boy/girl are mistreated, you will end up being very different than a person who wasn't. So, yes, childhood circumstances affect the decisions that people make.
Sugar2195: I believed that Perry and Dick's decision was really influenced by their childhood events. Both didn't have a stable life nor a stable family. I believe this created emotions of desperation,depression, madness and many more, and people act the way they are feeling.It is like a domino effect, one things affects the other and I believe this was the case of Perry and Dick that lead to the murder of The Clutter family.
ReplyDeleteA persons childhood has an enormous effect on their future actions, their childhood basically defines their attitude as grown ups, it defines their views and their beliefs, a man from privilege or good parents will most likely grow up to be successful and harmless to society, but a man raised alone, or by terrible parents will obviously be very different, he will feel some urge to get back at society or at life in some way, his beliefs will develop differently. Still, actions are not justified, only in the criminals mind.
ReplyDelete-Tribunito
Sugar2195: Tribunito I completely agree with you, the person's childhood has an enormous effect on their future actions and the person's personality. By experiencing bad things they with act badly.
Deleteforever alone
ReplyDeleteChildhood affects every single person. Dick and Perry aren't the exception to that, especially Perry. Perry had a terrible childhood and that would be one of the main reasons for which why people take the decisions they have taken. If Perry wouldn't have had a terrible childhood, there's a big possibility that he wouldn't have become a criminal. Therefore, this shows that childhood does really affect the decision people make.
girlABC:
ReplyDeleteFamily and childhood are the foundations of a person but you as a person decide what to do with what has been given to you. Perry and Dick were unhapy with their life but their are always options and killing four members of a family wasn't their only option. Perry's sister says so in a letter she sends to him when he's in prison. She had a tough childhood too but she did something of her life and she was happy.
El Bis Stek
ReplyDeleteYes, people's character and personality is defined by the way people are raised. For example, my parents asked me to have the best grades possible and have a good discipline at school. This created the correct and right personality and character I should have and made me create good decisions. So, it is true that your decisions are affected by the way you are raised.