Crime

Webster dictionary defines crime as: an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law. I define crime as a form of rebellion, a sense of false power , and the result of ignorance of the individual committing the act as well as the society that the individual comes from. I define crime as a form of rebellion because it is my belief that a high percentage of the people that commit crime do so out of a sense of entitlement. For example a person that has the mindset that the system is corrupt and because they feel slighted, that individual then begins to work the system for his/her benefit. Which not only affects the system but the society as a whole. This is a classic case of ignorance and a false sense of power that they have now gotten over on the persons they feel are responsible for their actions. Another example is a person that commits a violent crime who claims to do so because they feel that if no one will give them what they feel they are entitled to they will take it. They have a sense of false power because in that moment they control their victim. It is from this place of ignorance that they dont realize that they are the one that is being controlled by their circumstances by using their abilities to harm the very society that they are a part of.