Nowadays the belief that everything is an ethical issue is increasingly widespread. Everything from the colors you wear, to the people you choose to love, to what you eat for breakfast, someone somewhere is going to tear it apart and find an ethical issue. Name everything you strongly believe in as an individual and you can find someone who thinks the exact opposite and is eager to tell you how their way of thinking is correct. This is primarily a product of postmodernism, combined with the end of modernism and the belief that there is an absolute discoverable truth. That said, basically anything that can be justified is acceptable, even ethical. From all this, many different branches of ethical theories are discovered, rediscovered, invented and renewed, some dating back to ancient Greece. Now that social media is telling many stories and fueling the flames of many debates, there is a problem so widespread that it can no longer be ignored. This problem, which is becoming more and more prevalent in American culture, is parents putting children on leashes. Ethical or not, it all depends solely on individual standards, beliefs and moral stature. We've all seen that parent at the grocery store or amusement park. Perhaps this person is a neighbor, an obscure relative, or even a best friend. This child with a colorful backpack is carried around by the parental figure. The child may cry, throw a tantrum, suck his fingers, or perhaps be dragged across the linoleum floor. This rehearsal tends to be a spectacle. However, there will still be parents who enter public places with their children on a leash. It will definitely cause more than... middle of paper... race, but as human beings, we must embrace the things that make us unique. Otherwise we, as a species, are condemned to destroy ourselves. The opposite of war is not peace, it is love. This wasn't meant to turn into a show-stopping statement about world peace, it's simply a statement that no two are exactly alike. We are all different, and in a way that makes us the same. And it's the first step to understanding why others think and do what they do, even if they keep their children on a leash. Works Cited Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles.Murphy, E. (2012, June 25). Extreme Parenting: On Leash or Off 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.