Are we free to make our own choices?

Are we free to make our own choices?

Being able to make our own choices is something everyone is dreaming of, as the society really influences us on what we should or shouldn’t be doing. In the society of today, people are more free to do what they want than people from centuries ago but we still can get punished if we don’t obey the law. Are we free to make our own choices?

People around us can limit the choices we have. The one who are close to us, such as our parents and friends, often limit the choice we have in our life. For instance, parents can limit our education options by pressuring us to study the subjects they want, and friends can affect our decisions through peer pressuring. Besides, if we insist on not following their actions, we may be discriminated and isolated by them.

Therefore, parents and friends are among the people that will affect our decisions.

Also, our society plays an important role in limiting our choices because people in some countries are forbidden to make their own choices. Those countries are often controlled by corrupted governments that prohibit the freedom of speech. The Locals who try to express their opinions about the governments' actions will be accused of treasons, and be sentence into prison or to death penalty. This is what happened in the USA during the witch-hunt, people who worked for the government would put pressure on people to make them, for example, confess or name people that can be innocent and by doing that, people could lost their job or even their lives.

In summary, our choices are not really our own. There are a lot of things that affect that, such as our family or friends, or our government and society.

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