Free to be Free
When you're looking at the Freedom balance sheet afforded you by virtue of being in a Democratic society, you really should be looking at both sides of the ledger. In your list of freedoms and liberties, how many are "Freedom froms" and how many are "Freedom tos"? The difference? Putting your community and country before yourself by demonstrating your civic duty to preserve and protect your family, community, and country is an example of your freedom to be a moral citizen. If you decide to emphasize your individuality in order to resist any efforts to urge you towards being that moral citizen because you insist you should have the freedom from government control, you've contaminated the concept of freedom. The founders of Democratic Constitutions were men of thought. They realized the gravity of setting out guidelines for societies so that individuals would have inalienable rights all the while preserving the integ