What’s Your Answer?
I believe that it depends on the situation. For example, there were these 8th grade kids and they would bother this old lady. They would egg her house, torment her ect., but they never hurt her. So one day when the kids were in her yard she went outside with a rifle and fired it in the air, her intension was only to scare the kids out of her yard but instead the bullet hit a tree branch, it off of it and hit one of the kids and killed him. In this situation you should judge the women on action because even though she didn’t intend to hurt the kid, at her age she knows better and that there are other ways to scare children off then to fire a dangerous weapon in the air. So really to this question “Should we define someone by their actions or their intentions?” I believe it depends on the situation and you should question the person(s) about what happened, so there is a fair punishment and answer to this question.