Friday, March 19, 2010
If I want to, then I will
Should we be allowed to say whatever we want? Are there times when censorship is necessary? Through the eyes of an existentialist, we are allowed to express ourselves however we want to. People have the right and the freedom to speak and to express themselves since we create our own destiny. With this freedom, however, comes responsibility where we should have self-awareness. Yes we have the freedom to say whatever we want, but we have to be aware of what we are doing and have to take our freedom with responsibility. Even though we are free to defy our parents and talk back at them, we rather keep this to ourselves because we have the responsibility to behave with our parents. Is it wrong if we talk back to our parents? There is no right or wrong, as long we take responsibility and face the consequences. If we know we shouldn't express ourselves in a certain way, and we decide to ignore that and later do not take responsibility for it, then certainly it was unethical to act in such a way. Sometimes censorship is ethical, in a way that WE censor ourselves because we have the responsibility to measure our acts, no one else can do that for us. We should know if what we are doing is right or wrong. For example, when the government decides to censor someone's freedom of speech we are not being denied our actual existential freedom; legally we aren't allowed to say something, but as a person we can.
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