How can individual freedom be reconciled to important values of community life, such as the need for order, obedience, loyalty, justice, and/or the responsibilities of leadership?
2006-12-08 06:48:14 · 7 answers · asked by me 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Everybody needs balance to be a complete person.
2006-12-08 06:51:15 · answer #1 · answered by adam11173 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a great question but obviously the one who asked it could have been more in touch with real people and worded it to be easily understood.
Bascially we all have individual freedoms. How do they impact the way we govern our society? If your individual freedom has a negative impact on other people in society, then we need to consider what the best compromise would be. Sometimes we have to sacrifice some of our individual rights for the good of everyone effected.
The best example that I can think if is what we call Pro-choice/Pro-life. On one side we have people who want the freedom to decide, should this growing life inside a woman continue to grow and be brought into the world. On the other side, we have those who say that giving a person this freedom to chose is wrong because it goes to far, to the point of taking away the right the growing life has to be born. So our freedoms seem to cross paths and one person will make a sacrifice for the other. If the woman decides to abort the pregnancy, the baby was denied its rights. If she goes through with it, the woman is the one making the sacrifice to carry the child, even though she desires not to be pregnant at this time in her life.
I hope that example makes it more clear. Its my opinion of what the question is asking.
Perhaps traffic lights would be a better example. You stop so someone else can proceed safely, you make the concession because there is a price to pay if you refuse. We give up our rights on a regular basis, we just don't always stop to think about it. The question is good because perhaps it made us do that.
2006-12-08 15:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm noted for saying what's on my mind so I'm going to say it sounds somewhat oxymoronic.
Obedience does not allow for Individual freedom, per se. It is like a home, where - to me - a child wants his freedom to pursue his own endeavors but he has to follow his parent's rules of obedience. In short, though he is allowed some freedom to function, yet he cannot do as he jolly well pleases. He is accountable to his parent not himself (the individual).
In a community, there are community rules to be obeyed and every member of that community is bound to exist according to those rules and not make his own.
I may be totally wrong and I apologize just in case, but this is my take on the question.
2006-12-08 14:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by SANCHA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone has to talk like that because the real purpose of a community is for friends to co operate with each other to get one thing at a time
2006-12-08 14:55:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its asking about how to find a balance between freedon and a upstanding society. How to have your cake and eat it to. I think.
2006-12-08 14:53:04 · answer #5 · answered by rock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to, but I got bored after the first few words, actually forcing myself to re-read it, it doesn't make any sense at all. I knew I should have trusted my first instinct.
2006-12-08 14:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by mizzsquitz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how can civilization/society be the same as freedom? that's basically what it's asking.
2006-12-08 14:51:05 · answer #7 · answered by Jenna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋