New Log #6

Sung Jin Kim

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News Log #6

10/13/11

            The Police have found around $16,000 worth of illegal narcotics and a semi-automatic handgun in the apartment of Alvin Jones. Of course, it is easy to see this man as a wretched drug-dealer who received his due punishment or even to look at his parents with condescension and judge them to be awful caretakers of their children. However, one can never truly pin the responsibility to a man for his actions because the man’s personality and characteristics were largely shaped by those who raised him, the environment he grew up in, and the genetic coding in his cells, which may encourage certain unfavorable habits, emotions, and affinities. Moreover, even parents who raise their children poorly are exempt from full condemnation because influences, which affect their child-rearing skills besides their own will, are always present. While many believe otherwise, no man is truly an individual who is free from any extrinsic circumstances, which adulterate his purely self-made and maintained mind. Therefore, in situations such as those of Alvin, though I only assume his up-bringing to have been inadequate, we can only have sympathy as those whose situations in life are more fortunate than his.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/10/newark_police_raid_turns_up_ha.html