People claim to want freedom, but they also seem to need limitations on that freedom. This is because freedom as well as its limitations are both needed to live peacefully. Absolute freedom cannot be achieved because when you take away limitations, you take away freedoms. Without rules governing our society, people would be able to do what they want to each other without a certain punishment. When you examine the advantages and disadvantages of both arguments, it becomes clearer. One of the major reasons freedom is so desirable is because many of the limitations on freedom do not allow us the right to have control over our own bodies. Controlling our bodies is the only thing that we actually have power over. Many prohibited freedoms are crimes where you make yourself the victim, such as using drugs, prostitution, suicide, vagrancy, minor in possession, dodging the draft, entering the country illegally, and age limits on the purchase of pornographic materials. All of these crimes are punishable under the law. What puts these apart from most crimes is that you choose to victimize yourself (except sometimes in the case of prostitution if they are being forced to prostitute against there own will). What people choose to do to themselves, in my opinion, is the least of our worries as a country. The last thing the government should have control over is what you choose to do to yourself. As long as you are not directly harming anyone else in the process, the government should not waste their time and money on something so trivial compared to crimes involving a victim. In general, people do not agree with the government controlling what they can and cannot do. It should be no one's decision but your own if you want to be homeless, drug-addicted, prostitute as long as the only damage you inflict it on yourself. I believe that these laws only exist in response to popular demand. An immense amount!
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