A result or an effect of an action or condition. Never should an action be left without consequence. Consequence makes law, it creates the guild lines of good and bad, benignity and malignantly. Consequence is chastising, it is punishment, yet it is a prize. To have consequence, you make action. Take Aaron Hernandez, A football player and convicted murderer. On April 19th, Aaron was found hanging from the ceiling by his bedsheets close to his window in his cell. He had wealth, fame and fortune, but he gave it all up. Joining the Bristol Blood Gangs, overdosing drugs, and committing cold blooded murder. His consequences were negative, placed in a correctional facility, losing all his fame, his life went down the drain and it was so bad, that he took his life. The demons he bottled up, the pain he gave and received because… why? Why did Aaron Hernandez kill, intoxicate and end up taking his life? People don’t think about the consequences, for they only live in them moment. But your life can be ruined while you are “In the moment.” In about 30 seconds, you can be rushed to the hospital on …show more content…
Consequence is the binding to make sure everybody is safe. A parent gives punishment to a child to teach and give morale. A judge gives a punishment to teach and protect society. But for me to say that consequence always teaches and always protects is completely wrong. Some will keep doing wrong, so we keep throwing them back at square one? Why won’t everybody learn? Is it the desire to keep creating fear, or is it the crave to inflict harm? Maybe we have it all wrong and they don’t have a choice. But of course, they do, for everybody’s body is theirs, and they make their own decisions. I do not know if typing this essay will keep me from speaking when I am not supposed to, but nobody will know until I am stuck in the same situation. Only then we will find out. “Ethics is knowing what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”-Potter