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Add to FavoritesWhen you apply the above question to societies, the answer is undeniably 'free'. When you control certain aspects of a society, regulate the maintenance and personal decisions of the people, with a static system you will create a friction between the people and the system. People by nature are dynamic, subjecting them to a pattern of rules and regulatory control will always create a subconscious resistance which often is vented by abnormal behavior such as paranoia. You will create a subconscious mindset of entrapment. To people who are raised in such a system it often goes unnoticed but through minor alterations of their behavior this can be seen. For example the subtle differences in emotional responses to a certain concepts such as authority.
If the argument tends to lean towards the notion of people disrupting society due to the unrestricted boundaries their behavior is able to express, the opposite argument should be commonsense. That is people are dynamic, adaptable, beings and will adopt a form of self-regulation when given enough time to adjust. It is in the best interest of all species on this planet to adapt to surroundings in order to survive. It's not different with human behaviors. New situations and the degree of learned behavior against those new situations are the only factors when adapting new behavior over a given amount of time.
It's easy to use today's situation of over-abundant control as an example of why changing the system to complete freedom will not work. You must realize people are not only dynamic but they act similar to the way a capacitor works in electronics. That is they absorb certain behaviors and when they are in a different situation which challenges those behaviors they will slowly forget the previous, absorbed, preconditioned behaviors and adopt new ones. People have been over-abundantly exposed to a non-self-regulatory system for a long time and thus will not act with self-control if given the opportunity to be completely free right away. But chaos is in no way an absolute behavior that would be expressed each time.
It is possible with a gradual process, of less and less regulations, to have societies with total freedom and remain under self-preservation and self-control. It's a matter of retraining through personal decisions and less regulations over a certain periods of time.
In conclusion, due to the remarkable outcome of unhealthy, subconscious, behavoirs that are bad for individuals in controlled, regulated, situations and the ability for them to adapt to a completely functional free society where self-regulation is expressed natrually, the best option for people is to remain as free as possible from regulatory control.
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It is better to be controlled than to be completely free because everyone wants to be free. It is in human nature to be free. Freedom is something we all value; we treasure it more than anything else. Freedom is a gift to human kind. Freedom to think, write and to speak out; freedom to believe in what we want and to act accordingly. Freedom to worship and freedom not to worship. We all have a free will and we can determine the outcome of our lives.
Freedom is freedom!
After all that is said we have to ask ourselves one soul searching question: If everyone did what they thought was right or best. What would the world look like?
Freedom to act out a desire can be good for you but it can destroy someone else's life! For example having sex with a married person satisfies your own desire, but that person's spouse is faced with a life in ruins. Another example is a man who goes out driving in his sports car, 100 miles an hour, hits another person who is killed instantly. That man had freedom to drive like that but still his freedom had a cost. A life was taken and left behind are those who grieve.
Freedom is not as simple as it seem and therefore it must be controlled. We have the saying: "freedom with responsibility". You must be responsible and you must account for your actions. In the U.S. every one is allowed to have a gun, but we see more and more how many life's are taken by this so called "freedom". We understand the importance of protecting one self and one's family, but still the cost of innocent life's is irreversible.
Understanding your neighbour can solve almost any problem.
So when all is said and done we must conclude that complete freedom can only be achieved by control. I did not say oppression or dictatorship or any such thing, but to be governed by good laws every country can come up with a solution that fits their nation best. All we have to do is to sit down and talk and find a way to make things better. We all have our own best interest at heart, but many times we fail to see that when we think about others first, or at least alongside of our selves, we are not only helping them but also our selves. Many times helping another is helping oneself.
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