Freedom and Responsibility
To me, freedom is being able to speak what you want to speak, being able to follow your own path, be what you want to be, preach what you want to preach, and overall just live how you want to without haveing to worry what others might think of you. Freedom means doesn’t mean you’re able to just go out and do what you will without a care of following rules there are still consequences for some of your actions. For example,if someone were to go out on a killing spree on everyone who was wearing a yellow shirt it’d be against the law. Now laws are passed by the president only if fair he must do what is safe for all and not just you like the quote “The world does not revolve around you.”
To me, it is more important for the safety of multiple people rather then just targeting one person. Publice security is there to ensure that citizens well being is in good hands. This is important from personal freedom because where one might think he/she can do one thing because in their opinion they are just being free others might say that is is not right or immoral. Again with the example of someone going out on a killing spree on everyone who was wearing a yellow shirt
However it isn’t right to just go out and do as you please because you are not harming anyone. Just because you aren’t harming a person does not mean that you are hurting the plant life,animal life, or the planet. You have to take many things in to consideration and not take the freedom that the US gives their citizens to your advantage. If you were to have to much freedom who knows how you would react to any normal situation that could be solved logically. For example I am not free to do whatever I want because i must follow the rights of the United States of America.
I think it is not OK to ever break the law because we have laws for a reason. People get bulk headed with to much freedom and do dumb things as well as make dumb decisions when they aren’t following the law. For example a man gets in to his car knowing that he’s had a few drinks and still goes out for a joy ride to get more liquor. He doesn’t know that in 3 minutes his car will be flipped right side up after hitting a young woman on her way home from collage.
In conclusion I think it is more important to stand up for what you believe in because if you don’t then no one will hear the words of encouagement you have to share. Change can only be brought if you speak up the more you speak the more change you will see. It’s also very important to stay out of trouble because you won’t get anywhere in life not following the law. The society today is set out very simple you’ll either fail or you’ll pass through life. Sadly there are peope who choose to fail; why? I am sure that question might never really be answered, but we can do is try to fix the problem and get kids off the street doing good, get gang members to come at peace with eachother, and overall just clean up all of our acts because we’ve been slacking and look where it’s got us now. I don’t know about you but it seems pretty hard to stretch a dollar these days if you know what i mean.
on September 18, 2009 on 12:26 am
I agree with you because having freedom doesn’t really mean you can do anything you are very limited to the freedom you can do as long as it does not harm anyone.
on September 22, 2009 on 5:59 pm
Thats true but just because you don’t harm anyone whiloe you are doing “what you think” is free does not mean you can do sucks thing. There are guidelines and certain responcibilities that come with freedom. We as Americans give people freedom expecting people to be able to handle it. The thing is with to much freedom there can be danger.