Who should solve our modern day problems?.
Some of our most serious problems, to date, go back decades and decades. Our .
current troubles are given to our government and world leaders to solve. The dilemmas of .
the past were solved by a small group of citizens named the philosophes. Some of our .
problems that have always plagued society are thievery, criminal acts, kidnapping, .
natural disasters, addiction, etc. Every society is plagued with the ills of society and the .
destruction of mother nature. .
In the past, thievery, for example, has been handled differently in various .
cultures. Some would make convicted thieves stay standing up with their heads and arms .
shackled in a wooden fixture. Meanwhile, the "good" citizens would throw rotten .
vegetables and fruit at the criminal. In other cultures he would be stoned, have his hand .
removed from his body, or even killed. Modern day sentences of this crime would .
include anything from incarceration, probation, restitution, or community service. .
In the present world, we are faced with some of the past, as well as many different .
problems. Gun control, teen pregnancy, abortion, terrorism, depletion of natural .
resources, and addiction are some of our issues that have our own government and .
organizations worried. In my opinion, some of these problems will never be solved, no .
matter how hard you debate them or set up laws to try to curb them. .
Teen pregnancy, for instance, in every city affects young women every day. The .
way that organizations have proposed to fix this problem is by education and birth .
control. If people think in realistic terms, they know that young people are more and .
more unsupervised in the world we live in today. With both parents working, or one-.
parent families, teens have a lot of free time without supervision. Thus, education and .
birth control is very important for the teens to understand because it is a solution to this .
problem. .
