Your FREEDOM ends when the FREEDOM of others BEGIN...

Philippines
January 22, 2011 2:58am CST
This is the saying that I have learned during college from one of my professors. Sometimes we think of freedom as anything that we can do as long as we want to but hey freedom is not like that. He very well explained to us that your freedom ends when the freedom of others begins like you are inside your room, you got roommates, you wanna listen to a very loud music, but your roommates doesn't want to so this only means that you have to respect their freedom too. We can't do anything we want anytime because we live in a society where we have rules and regulations,we have norms,we have the justice system, and ofcourse we have the government to govern us so that we will be able to live in a peaceful society where we express our freedom with its conformity.
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JohnMach
@JohnMach (550)
• Philippines
22 Jan 11
This is true. Whenever I'm watching a movie alone and my brothers come in, I just turn off the TV thinking they're going to watch something else. I just do something else that would make me busy like play the guitar or draw something.
Jane
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
22 Jan 11
hello celeste, It's respect for others. Of course,if we want to be respected,we must pay respect first. I remember my granny told me ,respect those younger ones so that they will respect you. So i asked her,why should i respect younger ones than me,when they should be the one to respect the elders. My granny replied "elders should teach the younger ones,so,you must show them that you respect them,then it will not give you hard time to teach them how respect works" Freedom should not be abused,or else it will put us in trouble. So,respect other's freedom so that they will respect our freedom too. have a great weekend