Freedom, the concept of not being held back from someone else’s needs, a world of not being held back by an outsider telling you that what you do is not allowed. The general idea of being free can be summarized within 3 points. Being able to say what you want without fear that someone will come after you for your words. Being able to live your life as abnormal as it is as long as it doesn’t harm someone else’s life. Being able to go out and be comfortable in your own skin no matter the abnormalities or differences between physical appearance. This is a world that where those have to be fought for, and though it would be very appealing to live in a world where those three fundamentals are free and given to everyone by birth. But humans are not …show more content…
The freedom to say what you want without fear that it counters someone’s belief and cause them to react in a violent way is a core value of the definition of freedom on this paper. The first amendment values this in the United States yes, but the people do not in this world, since humans have a tendency to want to only hear what they believe is correct keeping them in a safe bubble of same-think. Such as in the passage named “The Briefcase” by Rebecca Makka, where a man who was only a chef was taken through violence by having a place where people could criticize the government and talk about revolutionary ideas. In this story, it is explained how seriously people can take other’s words. Whether the words offend them, or if the words are meant to throw them off their power because they are being corrupt and living a lifestyle that only benefits them and not the people that the rulers were set to rule. Some may say “But if someone says something that is unjust, towards something else, wouldn’t that violate this?” No it would not, most words humans speak are opinion, and all bad opinions stem from some truth, the best way to break a harasser’s slander is to prove them wrong, is it …show more content…
If a leader were to say that his country was doing well if all the people were suffering and he was living a healthy and care free lifestyle would be a violation on the definition on freedom itself. With freedom, the lifestyles of others should not violently interact with another’s lifestyle. It doesn’t matter the abnormality of the lifestyle. Just because it is abnormal, something the masses do not do does not mean the lifestyle is one that should not be permitted. Now others may say that living a so called ‘good’ lifestyle is the best way and all other styles should be abolished and banned yet some styles are not harmful to others, said lifestyle just doesn’t fit into agreement with the lifestyle of the masses. Such as the case within the time period of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” With the African Americans in America at the time, their lifestyle was harshly controlled by the largely dominant race at the time, whites. There was barely if not any freedom within their people, they could not do what they wished without being discriminated against or even killed by people who did not like their skin color, or their voice, or any physical attribute they had. Before moving on, some might also say that “Oh, but some lifestyles look very unpleasing towards the eye, or it might cause some discomfort within mine.” The best answer is to just deal with it, unless the act is hurting
There is humanly no possible way to merely or easily define what “freedom” truthfully is, as every distinct person and each social order has opposing restrictions for what this belief is. Bureaucrats and social researchers, for example, have vastly diverse philosophies of what institutes freedom. This primeval belief has been ingrained into mankind since the beginning of time. Century after century mankind has fought in numerous wars for this concept of “Freedom”.
Being free is a sense of when nothing in the world can define you except for yourself. Your choices and beliefs are shaped by your own interpretations of what you perceive or think. Referring to the book, it states, “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers” (Rand 101). When Equality 7-2521 lived in the city, he wasn’t allowed to speculate his own thoughts and keep information to himself. However, in the Uncharted Forest, he realized he was allowed to do anything he wanted. Therefore, what you want to be or do should be based on your own feelings, nobody else’s. People don’t have a right to make you feel ashamed of your dissimilarities
The Idea that freedom gives you the right to stand out among everyone, the right to be strange, the right to be an abomination and the freedom to fail.
• Freedom: The power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that. It is the power to act deliberately on our own responsibility.
Freedom to me is being able to learn from your mistakes. If I did not have freedom, I would have to do what the top officials tell me I have to do. They would tell me what books to read, what religion to study, and even what food to eat. I wouldn’t
Freedom is a word we all know; we all hear it ring in our ears, but what is freedom really? The dictionary definition is “the condition of being free of restraints”. We are all fettered by something whether it is a cell phone or bigger like an addiction; we all have something that makes us feel a little restrained at times. Other times however we get so caught up in wanting to do whatever we want that we don’t see that is not really freedom. Another definition of freedom from the dictionary is that it is “a right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference”.
Freedom means different things to different people at different times, depending on what political context is being used. The two major senses of freedom are: freedom of and freedom from. Freedom of means freedom to do something. It is the lack of constraints on behavior. Freedom from means immunity from discrimination and it comes close to the concept of equality.
freedom from want. However, these freedoms are not true freedoms as they are reliant on a
Freedom is something that many Americans take for granted. In the US, freedom is seen as an inalienable right. Americans are very fortunate to be able to have this mindset. Freedom is the right to live life in a fashion that creates a desired effect. A couple of authors who discuss the definition of freedom are Jerald Jellison and John Harvey in “What is Freedom,” and Walt Whitman in “I hear america singing.”
Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without resistance. Freedom is important because we have the opportunity to pursue happiness. Freedom leads to creativity and your own thoughts. People who live in freedom often take it for granted. Imagine if we didn’t have freedom.
In the United States we enjoy many freedoms. There are many place throughout the world that don’t allow you to live your life with the flexibilities that a United States citizen may possess. These right are given by the Unites States constitution has made this country become pioneers of innovation, and cultural development. Having a right to express yourself and your ideals have made this the home of immigrates with the ambition to develop into major contributors in modern society. One freedom we enjoy, I would like to discuss in this paper is freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is one the world’s most sort after rights but as of lately it has been under attack stating it may cause national security issues. In this paper we will look at the development of the First Amendment and how newly enacted laws that will cause the government to label people or groups enacting this rights as extremist.
Spider Man, a well-known superhero, hides under a false identity in desire to save the people that he thinks need saving, even if it is for a supposed good cause. In its severe consequence, he loses people that he cares most for. Similarly, in “The Briefcase” by Rebecca Makkai, the chef’s desperate desire to convince others of his false identity is seen through the author’s use of repetition, specifically with the word “prove” throughout the story, ultimately reminding us that the desire to be significant has severe consequences.
In Brink’s discussion of, Millian Principles, Freedom of Expression, and Hate Speech, he distinguishes between low value and high value speech. The former is speech that plays no essential role in the exposition of ideas and is of such slight social value as a step to the truth that any benefit is outweighed by the social interest in order and morality. Examples of low value speech include threats, fighting words, incitement of illegal activity, libel, and obscenity. In contrast, high value speech is speech that contributes to public discourse. Moreover, it possesses content-based restrictions that are subject to strict scrutiny, laws that are necessary to meet a state interest.
Freedom defines an individual, it gives someone the power to act, speak, or think without restraints besides the given laws. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
First, what is freedom? It's an ambiguous term that can hold many different meanings to different people. Where a person comes from, their socio-economic status, their race, age, gender and other factors play a role in defining what freedom is. It's used in many different senses, for example: is freedom being able to do as you like