... like to think that freedom means the ability to think for one's self even if this is different from what is considered to be the status quo and to express the ideas. In one of Cat Stevens' songs, the lyrics are ended with, "Say what you mean, mean what you're thinking, think anything." Allowing people the freedom to think is a scary proposition but they must be given that freedom. We must remember that we can make both wrong and right choices. As Mahatma Gandhi said, "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err"1. We must hold ourselves accountable for what and how we think. However, the difficulty with using the word freedom as a goal of society is that freedom in this sense cannot be attained. In human interaction we must give up freedom in one direction to receive it in another because very ...

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