In A truly free society should people be able to choose to live in a soceity or not?Should they be aloof?

Question

I think In a Free society people should be able to not participate in a society. I think for the general comfort and saftey i think those who choose to live free Should not be allowed into the soceity. But again in America there are the countless bums who live off government handouts and do not add to the econemy.

Answer 1

yes in a truly free society people should be able to choose to not participate and live outside of "society." however, if the society is truly free, those people should also be allowed into it. also a truly free society can't really have a government either, so that solves the problem of "bums" living off it. but the idea of being "truly" free is rather abstract, and not even attainable through anarchy, though that is probably as close as you are going to be able to get.

Answer 2

Unless you are dead or imprisoned, you always have freedom of choice, no matter what government you have. If you are a part of society, you are free to do what you want, regardless of the law.

The law is simply there to deter you from making hostile or irrational choices. If you ignore it, you risk consequences. You cannot simply choose to ignore the laws of society and expect to get away with it. Total freedom does not exist, because the natural world sets it's own boundaries, and logic prevents absolute freedom. That would be chaos.

We are all bound by physical laws, natural laws, rational laws, and societal laws, as well as standards of morality. If you freely choose to violate them, you are subscribing to anarchistic (total) freedom. Anarchy is the same thing as a totalitarian state, because justice will not be served.

Freedom must at all times be balanced with rationality, morality, and consequence. Otherwise, we become animals and criminals who operate on the law "I do whatever I want" until we die.

The only truly free society is the one where everyone is treated equally under the law, no one better than the other, until thier actions prove that they are outlaws and criminals, which is when they should be removed from society. This is almost the system we have now, and it is why you can freely read this right now, and why people are dying to get in here. Literally.

We live in the freest society on Earth, which the liberals call a "dictatorship". Only communism, brutality, anarchy, dictatorship, and Islamic fundamentalism is "freedom" to a liberal.
Anything besides freedom.

There can be no freedom without justice. Which is why total freedom cannot exist except to destroy itself.

Answer 3

As you as using the U.S. as an example, I will as well. A "free" society doesn't give much of a definition, but I'll presume for the purposes of the question that you mean a society in the West accustomed to various personal freedoms not found in many other countries.

In the U.S., you are free not to participate... you are free to leave. That is, most certainly, a freedom. But you cannot expect people to have the option not to participate, and yet still pay their taxes... and without taxes, the country doesn't work. At all. So citizens must pay them, because they reap the benefits of having a government which otherwise would not be able to sustain itself.

Answer 4

I think that's why we still have the death penalty. It's the ultimate consequence for those who don't want to or are unable to participate in your society.

Perhaps you draw the line at a different place than the United States Constitution. But be patient. We are getting better at quickly moving folks along through the juvenile and mental health system to death row.

Just fine tune the technology for killing people painlessly to avoid supreme court challenges. And stay ahead of the people who believe God gives life to anyone who breathes and every life is sacred even when she lives on government handouts.

Answer 5

Hold on! Your speaking of a trully free society and America in the same fraze, that's a big mistake!!!! True freedom is an uthopic concept, is something absolute and perfect, and nothing absolute and perfect can be experienced by an unperfect being as man. America is, of course, a country where people have great freedoms, but that in now ways means they are trully free. And as long as you live in a society, you can't be trully free, because your freedom stops where the freedoms of other starts.

Answer 6

Contrary to the pizza guy's answer we don not live in a society in which everyone is treated equally. Just as an example, less than 1% of people can afford to pay for an entire homicide trial. Assuming that there are falsley accused murderers, the better off you are, the more likely it is you are found not guilty. How is that a society in which everyone is treated equally?

Answer 7

There is no such thing that you describe. If people had the ability to completely disengage from society then it isn't a society.

America, of course, is not a completely free society at all. There is no reason, then, to challenge your silly assumption about people not adding to the ecomomy (even if true, which is could not possibly be), as if that is the measure of a society.

Answer 8

In a truly free society, every citizen should enjoy the freedom to live however they like as long as it doesn't infringe on the freedom of others.

Freedom for participants only isn't really freedom then as it's conditional.

Answer 9

If you choose not to "participate" then one should not expect to reap the benefits. Half the people bashing the current administration did not even vote. I voted I have the right to complain.

If all the dems complaining about Bush had voted, they would have had their way...but then nothing to whine about.

Answer 10

Pay your taxes regularly. Follow the rules of the land and the balance is what can be called as freedom