RE: Finding Courage
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Very very nice writing, sounds taken from a book for how good it is
In case, i couldn't blame parents, children safety comes first, before ideals and everything else
Are actual democracy really democracy? No work and no money without covid shot, jail for posting memes... That exactly sounds like discipline and order
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Thank you for liking my writing. This one was written from passion, strong emotion.
You make a valid point. What is democracy? Is it absolute freedom? As soon as we live with other people, we will have our freedom restricted. We must follow sanitary regulations (what to do with garbage and excrement, for example) because what we do impacts others. What is too much regulation? Who determines the extent of regulation? In my neighborhood we have onerous zoning regulations--how big a shed can be, for example. All of us live, if we live with others, restricted by a social contract.
During COVID, regulations existed for what was considered the public good. Were they really for the public good? At least no one was killed or jailed. At least children weren't kidnapped. At least doors and car windows weren't smashed. People weren't beaten and tear-gassed in the streets. When one talks about freedom and government control, perhaps one might consider relative severity of measures.
I don't know. The story is one way I have of sharing my distress over my country's current state. I like to write :)
oh yes we have also very strict regulations for onerous zoning here, even colors of the buildings...
sometimes i'd give up some freedoms to feel safe to go outside in the night for example, now in some places if you do it, you do risking your own safety, that's not freedom either being forced to stick at home...