by Ian Wayne Grant Sparkman

Created on: February 28, 2010   Last Updated: March 01, 2010

The answer to this debate is found in the law of the United States and the average park rules where people go camping. First of all it is illegal to litter, and most camping facilities have park rules stating that it is required you pick up your trash. Looking at the morals of this question also answers it quite simply that you should be responsible and pick up after yourself.

If you are too lazy to pick up after yourself when you go camping, then you might want to rethink going in the first place. Mother nature does not make anything that does not go back into the Earth, whereas human beings do. Therefore, we should be mindful of nature's beauty and keep our mess's picked up when we are done using the campground.

Do you remember your mother constantly telling you to clean your room, well think of your camping spot as your room and nature as your mother. Animals are easily harmed by our garbage and may become comfortable with approaching humans who are camping, which is caused by throwing our food out around our camping grounds and animals eating it. They will develop a memory of the spot where the food came from and return for more.

Another reason you should be responsible for picking up your camping grounds is that others will come after you. If there is garbage laying around the site then people will be more likely to follow suit and leave their garbage to.

Eventually all of this will pile up and camping would become an unpleasant venture and many people would lose their interest in returning due to the mess.

Yet another reason to clean up your site is that if you look at the park workers jobs like your own job, you would see that by leaving trash laying at every site, would be like your boss giving all of the work and leaving while keeping the profit all to himself.

It is just wrong to automatically expect someone else to clean up after you, being disrespectful is not cool and is just stupid on the perps part. 

Would you clean up your child's every mess and never have them do anything for themselves? I would not due to the fact that it causes laziness and poor hygiene practices.

So, in my closing argument I leave you with this, if you are that lazy that you cannot clean up after yourself you should not go camping, or just hire a camping maid to do it for you if you are rich.

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