Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Freedom and liberty
The U.S. has long been seen by many around the world as a bastion of
freedom and liberty. But what does this mean? How can individual choice
be promoted and protected when members of society have different views
of how things should be organized and how their own interests can be
preserved? The interests of an individual in his or her own freedom and
liberty to act must be balanced against the interests of society as a
whole, and sometimes these interests collide. Societies need to have
laws to promote order. The larger, more diverse, and more complex a
society is, the more regulated that society must be. At the same time,
people have differing opinions about what choices should be allowed on
many controversial subjects, about what the government itself should be
allowed to do, and about whose interests should prevail.
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