What Does It Mean To Be Free Essay

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The success of a community seems to be split on whether or not if you’re forced to give up freedoms. The reason you can’t have complete freedom is that some people may want to do heinous things with their freedom. Such as murder, rape, etc. Which unarguably is not good for humanity. Letting things like that run rampant through society will ultimately create chaos and destroy humanity as a whole. BUT other things like freedom to religion and owning a gun for self protection should not be taken away as, yes some people abuse these things or use them out of context, such as radical religionists or mass shooters. Nevertheless, it isn’t fair to the people as a whole to take that away and although that is a very clear line to not cross between murder …show more content…

So, yes i believe for a society to function you may have to give up actions, although it isn’t fair to make one give up his/her thoughts or freedom to voice those thoughts to people who would like to hear them.

In the topic of abortion, you can’t ask is it fair to the child because people would reply life isn’t fair. But truly is it wrong in a primal sense? In a primal sense though would mean going back to primal forms of living where everything is wrong and right. A functioning society must have laws but the laws have to be justified beyond being right or wrong, or just or not. Except how do you have laws that aren’t based on a single person’s belief on should something be a law or not?
The only Just way for that to happen would be for everyone to agree on a simple question. Yes or No. Except the world can’t agree all together because everyone thinks differently.

So you tell me Is it wrong or is right. I think there has to be a specific line between laws that the community should have to accept. So in specifics yes they have to give up things bad for the community as a whole. At the same time keeping what is just for every SINGLE

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