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Published: 11.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Freedom to Harm Yourself', 1.
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Freedom is the ability to think, feel, and do whatever one chooses so long as he or she doesn't harm anyone else. Americans, compared to the rest of the world, have a lot of freedoms. I do believe, though, that there is one freedom that is being ignored by the American government. This freedom is the right to harm yourself.
The American government has gone too far in creating laws to protect people. If someone doesn't wear their seatbelt, they aren't causing any danger to anybody else. If someone wants to die, it shouldn't be anybody's decision but their own.…

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