What does a human being need to go through to gain freedom? How difficult is freedom to attain?
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As human beings, no one should ever have to gain their personal freedom. Freedom is guaranteed at birth. To have it taken away is wrong, unless something illegal, such as a crime, justified it being taken away. In that case, a person who commits a crime must carry out and serve his punishment in order to achieve his freedom back. Also in that sense, freedom is then very difficult to attain. Those who committed a crime willingly void their right to freedom and show others that they do not care about their freedom. It will be very hard to prove to people again that he does care about his freedom and that he deserves it back.
I don't think that people should have to gain their freedom; they have it at birth. However, it can easily be revoked if you do something that completely deserves it.
I agree. No one should have to gain their freedom but they should always to try keep it (such as not breaking the law etc.) But if they do lose their freedom it is very hard to obtain. I think they must show how they've changed and explain why they committed their crime and what they would do differently now. I feel like freedom is like trust. When you have it, it can be easily lost but it's even harder to gain it back.
freedom is hard thing to do. you have to think of every single step you take or you got to make correct laws for people of your country. so i think it is hard to attain a freedom
So I just finished watching Defiance. (that movie staring the blond bond -- you know what I'm talking about) In it he leads a community of Jews hiding in the forest from the Nazis. Freedom was obliterated in the ghettos and villages where the Germans would commit mass murders. However some people chose to escape into the woods. That one act of defiance proves that freedom exists even when all hope is lost.
Seriously, though, that card is really hard to get in Monopoly. I mean the cost of freedom in that game is - oh wait a minute, that wasn't the question, was it?
Personally I agree that freedom is a right that all people are born with and should never be taken away, unless they take advantage of that right. Only in the examples everyone gave (breaking laws, etc.) should a person's freedom be redefined. But if it is taken away without reason, as often happens in the game of Monopoly, it should not cost anything to gain it back, quite the opposite of Monopoly.
People have freedom at birth, it does not have to be gained. I think that the actions and decisions that you make would change how much freedom you deserve or are allowed. For example, if you committed a crime, you would have your freedom taken away by going to jail and being punished in order to attain your freedom back.
I think people are born with their freedom, but sometimes people may lose it if they commit a crime or break the law in any other way. If someone does that, they have lost their freedom.
I think having and keeping freedom is built strongly on a trust and respect between society and all the people in it. Freedom is being able to do what you want granted that you dont do anything harmful to others or anything stupid. Therefore the moment you do something horrible like committing a crime, you have lost the trust of people and society and that is why your freedom will be taken away. Sounds kind of weird, i hope you get what I'm saying.
On a serious note, American immigrants need to go through a lot of bullshit to get their citizenship. Last year I volunteered at the high school to help immigrants get their citizenship and the processes were unbelievable. They had to fill out 50 page questionnaire with more than overly personal questions, then they had to take a written test on the history of our country that I couldn’t even pass. And they are also tested on how well they speak English and finally the inspector gives them a sentence and they have to write it down with perfect grammar and perfect spelling. I’m talking about some hard sentences to. Like, “My son and I went to the park, and the sun was very bright.” Verbally to a person who doesn’t speak English as their first language son and sun sound very similar and where the comma goes is impossible to know, there’s two ands!! Needless to say they go through a lot to get there “freedom” and it really is a piece of paper to be proud of.
I like the belief of having a social contract in society. In this contract everyone is given certain unalienable rights, such as right to life, liberty, and property. These rights are granted toeveryone and cannot be put aside by any one man. If a person chooses to attack the rights of another person and change them, then the persons social contract becomes void and that person gives up their rights having violated the contract. This idea is very visible in society today and is a basis by which the world revolves around. If you follow the contract then you have these freedoms, but if you violate it then you give up all your rights in redemption of your crimes.
I don't think any one can gain freedom,I mean the only time your freedom is taking away from you is when you go to jail.
Yeah people have freedom as soon as they're born. They don't have to do anything, achieve any goals or finish any tasks in order to recieve their freedom. Except in countries where communism is in control. Like North Korea. Getting out of North Korea is nearly impossible and they have no freedom to speak or do whatever they want. And freedom can be taken away as soon as someone does something harmful to someone else or to themselves.
I also agree that no human should ever have to gain their personal freedom. To have your freedom taken away is morally incorrect, unless a crime was committed in which he or she deserves to have their freedom taken away. I would think after going to prison that person would realize just how valuabe freedom really is. However, it would be hard for that person to earn that freedom again.
I also agree that no one person has to work to get freedom. It is something that you have at birth. the only that someone needs to work on is having others recognize that they are free and they do have the right to do as they please.
There are many obstacles on the course to freedom. One can never achieve true freedom, and most would rather not due to the complications described in my first response (the freedom to own nukes, to steal, to murder, etc.). Instead, we strive infinitesimally for a more free life through hard work and dedication, much like we as a nation strive for a more perfect union.
From when we are born, we are kept under constant watch while awake and trapped in our own personal comfy jail cell at night. It is not after years of learning language, walking, eating, drinking, and all the other numerous activities we must grasp as a toddler that we are given the freedom to roam about, within a confined area of course (usually the house). Eventually we are free to visit our friends’ houses, eventually even on our own. As we near adulthood, we get a car that can take us to many different places on our own or with a few friends (although in East Brunswick there’s not much to do). After college (or earlier or later depending on if you drop out or continue to medical, graduate, etc. school), we move into our own house and start our own life and enter into the real world, and even then we are still limited by the laws enforced by government and by social values.
Throughout our lives we have to work to achieve these freedoms, whether it be working in a negative, positive, neutral, or controversially debatable direction. With the introduction of technology and the baby-nurture generation full of over-protective parents preventing children from having the same liberties as previous generations, it is our time “to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope [to achieve the freedoms we aspire for]. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't [achieve those freedoms], we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can [achieve those freedoms]. Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.”
-Michael Ch**ng
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