Parents Putting Children in Leashes

In this day and age there is the increasingly popular belief that everything is an ethical issue. Everything from the colors that you wear, to the people that you choose to love, to what you eat for breakfast, someone somewhere will tear it apart and find an ethical issue. Name anything that you as an individual strongly believe in, and you can find someone that thinks the exact opposite and cannot wait to tell you about how their way of thinking is correct. That is mainly a product of post-modernism, combined with the end of modernism and the belief that there is a discoverable absolute truth. With that out of the way, basically anything that can be justified is acceptable, even ethical. Out of this many different branches of ethical theories, some dating back to Ancient Greece, are being discovered, rediscovered, invented and revamped. Now with social media driving many stories and fueling the flame for many debates, there is one issue so prevalent that you cannot possibly ignore it any longer. This issue, that is becoming increasingly prevalent in American culture, is parents putting children on leashes. Ethical or not, it all depends solely on individual standard, belief, and moral stature.

We’ve all seen that parent in the grocery store or at the amusement park. Maybe this person is a neighbor, obscure relative, or even a best friend. This child with a colorful backpack on is being walked about by their parental figure. The child may be crying, throwing a temper tantrum, sucking on their fingers, or maybe even being dragged across the linoleum floor. This ordeal tends to be a spectacle. However there will still be parents who go into public places with their children tugging at a leash. Without fail it will cause more than...

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... race, but as human beings, need to embrace the things that make us unique. If not we as a species, are doomed to destroy ourselves. The opposite of war is not peace, its love. This wasn’t supposed to turn into some pageant statement about world peace, its simply a statement that nobody is exactly alike. We are all different, and in a way that makes us the same. And it is the first step to understanding why others think and do what they do, even if they are strapping a leash to their children.

Works Cited

Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles.

Murphy, E. (2012, June 25). Extreme Parenting: To Leash or Not to Leash? - ABC News. Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/06/extreme-parenting-to-leash-or-not-to-leash/

Rosenstand, N. (2013). The moral of the story: An introduction to ethics. New York: McGraw-Hill.