What It Means To Be Free

In my last blog I was a little unclear on my main point so to clear it up a little bit, the united states should not claim that it is the “America is the freest and wealthiest nation in the world” when for 1 free is a misconception of the word regulated, and 2 America is not the wealthiest nation, we are in over 13,000,000,000,000$ of debt. I know that without laws and rules everything would be chaos. Rules and laws are the structure to the world, like beams supporting houses and buildings, without them a house would crumble and fall to the ground like society would without laws. There are many reasons why we need rules and laws, for instance if a man kills another man the best thing to do is to put him in jail to prevent him from being a danger to someone else, also to keep everything in order. What is a problem are the little rules and laws( listed in last blog) that could result in minor or very severe punishment. New laws are thought of and proposed to congress to get passed all the time and as time goes buy it almost seems like they are just proposing pointless laws. What would you consider reasonable and ridiculous laws?

What It Means To Be Free

As a nation the United States claims that it is free. What exactly does that word mean? Since it is such a commonly used word it is hard to put only one meaning to it. We as Americans are considered to be free, but are we really? Another meaning of free is not costing any money. The first definition of free is the most important in my argument; it states that America is the freest and wealthiest nation in the world. Are we free in the eyes of everyday citizens, or are we free in the eyes of the government, which are two very different perspectives. When I think about freedom, to me means being independent and not having any higher authority besides ourselves, we all know this cannot happen though. Although laws keep society in the right path by punishing dangerous or potentially dangerous people there are some laws that go against what I believe to be freedom. For example, the current drinking age is 21, the age at which men and women can fight in the war is 18, now don’t you think if you’re old enough to die for your country you should be old enough to have a beer? There are so many rules and regulations now a days you’d be surprised how many things you do every day that are either illegal or could get you a fine, for example, jaywalking, littering (this includes cigarette butts), speeding, using programs like lime wire and YouTube to download and play copyrighted material, not using a blinker to change lanes, over excessive honking, talking on the phone and driving, texting and driving, ever had a card game with friends for money? Gambling is illegal in Georgia. Even many forms of sex are illegal! With all these in mind it is really hard to give the word freedom to the United States. They word freedom in relation to what rights we have should be changed to modern day slavery.