Is freedom over-rated?
537327
I agree. I think it is in the balance. We have better oppportunities and privileges in this generation. so we need to use it wisely, otherwise we'll end up being addicted, overwhelmed and worn out. We have more freedom and can do whatever we want, but can't escape the consequences. So we definitely need some discipline, self-denial and have life more abundantly by choosing the right, prioratizing .... we can't run faster than we have strength. All must be done in order and wisdom. We still have 24 hours
1044856
Your real freedoms are not being taken away by Uncle Sam... its the state governments who are doing it, one right at a time.  It looks like its all for the common good; seat belt laws, no cell phones while driving, child seats, the state taking children for suspected abuse, gun control, zoning ordinances...\n\nBut little by little basic freedoms are being erased in the name of common good.  Soon it will be so common to have restrictions placed on our behaviors and activities that we won't notice when our personal freedom is slowly taken by the state not for the common good, but as a means of control.\n\nSo don't look at the feds but at the statehouse and local government.  Its the local government who will excercise eminent domain and give you assesed value, not market value, for it so a political crony can build a strip mall or another McMansion.
672587
Sure. If people are given the freedom to whatever they want like they want to, it turns out they'll just sit around being bored. How true it is.
370215
You bet it is.  It's not about freedom, opportunity, integrity, honesty, or any other attribute of which you may imagine politics should be.  \n\nThe bottom line is money and POWER.  At the same time, there is poetic justice here.  They fall just as fast as they rise.
273917
there is nothing more important than freedom and human rights...NOTHING .and thats something we should all take a very close look at today in this country [usa]... "those who will trade freedom for security will end up with niether"[ pass it on]... winston churchill
781040
This question can have many different opinions from different people. Freedom isn't the ability to do what ever one wanted to do, if it was, just picture a world that has no law...it would be total chaos...whoever didn't like you because of what you said could shoot you with no consequences taken, and I turn that would be living in fear and living in fear is NOT freedom. Even though we have the law we can still have freedom...for example....if the speed limit says 25, 45, 55 or 70 mph, as long as I didn't break the speed limit I have the freedom to drive where ever I wanted to, but if I break the speed limit and get stopped...then I no longer have the freedom to keep driving. Freedom is abiding by the rules and laws of life. Laws are not to prohibit people from doing things, but to protect people from harm. I don't know if your religious or not, but the 10 commandments were to protect us so to speak, not to hurt us. So, why get rid of something that doesn't hurt us. Like anything in life...there's a price for freedom....and it's not cheap!!! The price of the Freedom that has been given to me has caused many deaths of the solders that died in war so I can be Free...even free to the point of burning the flag (which I wouldn't do) that gave me the freedom that I have.
923519
Overall it is extremely well done, but if your not satisfied with it, try looking at it from the way i rephrased it.\n\n“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.” Harriet Tubman, is a great woman whom I admire and respect along with others. Harriet, an African American, found it difficult to muster up courage to do what was right; work in fields, and travel on the “Underground Railroad.”\n\nthis might not be what you are looking for, but i would suggest adding more sentences as you can't really do much with this! Good Luck!
595217
If that is slavery, what is freedom to you? Freedom to not persue anything? Is that what you call freedom?\n\nThe American dream might be elusive, but to those who strive to get it, usually does, or else the concept might have died long ago.\n\nYes, I was indebt, too. But I had the FREEDOM to pay it off. I never displaced any of my responsibility to anyone else, keeping in mind the freedom to do and rise at a greater height than what I could reach, so as NOT to blame a "system" to my short comings.\n\nYou are only a slave if you view yourself as such. But if see yourself as a free man realizing his potential and applying his unbound liberty to rise among the rest, then you are trully a free man.\n\nBut yet, some are too lazy to do something at this freedom. Instead, succumbs to blame, mostly displacing it other than themselves. They are slaves... Slaves to themselves and their weakness, never realizing their potential.
1060077
Yes freedom is in Christ!!! The freedom he talks about is not worldly freedom but spiritual freedom. You see we were all born into sin, bound by it's temptation.Bound to it's will,but when Christ died upon the cross he paid for our freedom from eternal damnation.But it's by choice.\nWorldly freedom has taken a turn for the worst!!!\nPeople have forgotten what responsibility comes with freedom.
133942
I am going to leave this question open ended.  I was going to say that what makes this country so great is that it enables us the ability to speak up and tell our elected officials what is wrong and that something needs to be fixed.  However I can see a minor encroachment on our civil liberties when it comes to our National Security.  I do not believe that any of our rights should be take away, but I believe that we live in different times now.  It is sort of an unfortunate thing.
800269
We have already lost too much freedom. If you have no freedom then you are no more than a slave, and if you are a slave,you do not live a human life. Therefore, you are as good as dead anyway and might as well fight.
1020627
Freedom is neither a right nor a privalege.  Freedom is an absolute.\n\nEvery living being has the freedom to do whatever it desires within the limits of its physical being.  One can do whatever they want,  The question is what are the consequences of acting freely?\n\nAs an extreme example one is free to murder if they choose to do so, however there are consequences of acting freely in this way.  There is no such thing as a restraint on our ability to think are act.  There are only consequences once those thoughts or action have occured.
429603
If you think the Iraqi people do not deserve freedom, then no. If you are smart and realize that everyone deserves freedom, then yes.
1169459
No. Freedom comes with a cost. Answered by an african-american who had ancestors that were slaves.
56502
It's not the values you choose..  IT's the priority of the values you have.  \n\nThe current hot button item in the news is freedom vs. security.  Which do you value more?  Patrick Henry said, "Give me freedom or give me death"  George Bush says, "Give me your freedom so that I can protect you."
888684
I think that most people in our country today have no idea what it is like to go without!!  Most of us in America have no idea what injustice and No freedom means, therefore so many of us take it for granted!!! There is no perspective...there is nothing in most of our experience to compare it to!!! All of the groundwork was laid out for us by our forefathers!!! If we don't take an active seat in forming the laws, our country could come out of hand ....my best recommendation is to let everyone in your circle know how very important it is to retain our freedoms and use our tools for stabilizing this free country we are living n today!!! In world History we have seen mightier fall!!!
786951
Freedom is a state of mind.