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FREEDOM

To be free means to be able to choose in some aspects of live.  It’s better only to be able to choose some aspects because choosing all makes us take decisions in a more difficult way and that makes the world uncontrollable, because, what would happen if everybody could do whatever they want? So full freedom hasn’t got limits but they are necessary because people shouldn’t do whatever they want whenever they want. So fear of freedom is something that we can say that exists, because there are people, and we should be also be afraid of what would happen if everybody could do everything they want to do.

There are many countries where people are not free; the majority of those countries are poor. There, people cannot choose what they want to do almost in very simple aspect or life. But there are also other countries where they are not so poor, where there are people that because of their religion cannot be free, and sometimes those religions have been changed intentionally for that. For example, there are Islamic countries where women cannot choose and men are who make decisions in their place, but searching their benefit.

Another important point is that there are also developed countries where inhabitants can make very simple decisions but they cannot choose things that they should do. Dictators and absolutist kings are examples of that. One example is, when those inhabitants want to change the government, they can’t because the dictator or the king says that they are who makes every decision and that they can do whatever they want when they want.

For us freedom is the authority that people must have which makes those people to be able to choose in some aspect of their lives, not in all, because there shouldn’t be anyone who could do whatever they want when they want it.

Here there are some phrases said by important people about freedom:

·         The real freedom consists in absolute self-control. (Michel de Montaigne)

·         They can force you to say what they want, but there's no way they can make you to believe. They can’t enter inside you .( George Orwell)

·         Free countries are those where the rights of man and the laws are respected, therefore, are fair. (Maximilian Robespierre)

·         I detest what you write, but I would give my life so you could continue writing. (Voltaire) 

·         Freedom is to be able to do what must be done. (Montesquieu)

·         If freedom means something, is the right to tell others what they do not want to hear. ( George Orwell )

·         I loudly proclaim freedom of thought, and die if you do not think like me.  (Voltaire) 

·         Freedom said one day to the law: " You hinder me." The law responded to freedom: "I  keep." ( Pythagoras )

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