The responsible Freedom

 

Freedom of speech is a big word with a deep meaning, and people can understand it in different ways. It is important to hear people’s voices demanding for their rights publicly without fear. Freedom in general means to let people live their lives freely. It is important to allow people to be creative. Like what Nelson Mandela said:” Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” That means that if people had the freedom to achieve their ambitions, they will reach success and they will make good things in life. Freedom of speech specifically means the freedom of declaring opinions, thoughts, ideas, and demanding for rights. There is no democratic country, if there is no freedom of speech. It is important to have a good education. Students will be able to learn, ask questions, and say their ideas out loud for everyone without limits. People won’t learn without asking questions, and they won’t ask questions if they are afraid of regulations. It also improves people’s knowledge. people can share ideas and discuss opinions, so they can learn from each other. That is how the community will have an intellectual nation, with the freedom of expressing feelings and declaring opinions and by involving information between people. Also, freedom of speech leads the country to make changes in it. This helps to make evolution in the government and in the people themselves by free-thinking and an open-mind. By freedom of speech people can change the injustice laws. Therefore, the country will improve with a democratic government and a happy nation. In addition to this, when the people lose their freedom of speech, they will lose their identity and their dignity. Because the person who can’t rise his voice above oppression, has no reason to live and has nothing to fight for.

 

 A freedom without limits is a destruction for the community because it allows people to do everything without any constraints even if it was atrocious. Like cracking the governmental offices demanding for something, or making fun of other religions under the freedom of speech which is disrespectful for each other, that will cause problems between the people who have different beliefs or opinions and perhaps that will let the people kill or hurt each other. We could see many crimes and fights in our real world happening because of that. For example, what happened with “Nahed Hattar”. He shared a caricature making fun of Islam. Then a man came and killed him. This is an example of what happens when the freedom is not limited and when people don’t respect other’s freedom of speech. Nahed made fun of Islam thinking that that is the freedom of speech, and the other man killed him without thinking about the limits that Jordan has. The man actually was punished by the government because he crossed the limits. In addition to that, having no limits will destroy the government’s role in the country and no one will listen to its guidance. That means that if the government doesn’t control its people, they will rebel, destroy, object, and they won’t listen to the government’s laws. Another example about freedom of speech happened in Syria few years ago. When some kid’s decided to express their feelings about the war by drawing pictures and writing the word “ارحل” or “Leave” in English, on the school wall. After few days, the Syrian army came and take these kids to jail. Then they killed them. This story shows the unfair laws in that country because the kids had freedom of speech and they just expressed their feelings by small drawings. Like these problems happens when the country has very hash limits for freedom of speech and that means that the country doesn’t have democracy.

 

We can solve this problem by many logical and democratic salutations. For example, the government can give people the opportunity to say their opinions and demand for their rights in a good way, by making a conference with the people so they can join the government in making decisions and they feel that they are a part of the community. when people feel that they are included in the community as an important part, they will work harder to Improve their country and they will use the freedom of speech in a good way to defend their country. Also, making limits for freedom is helpful to control people’s actions towards the differences between each other or towards the laws. In this way, no one will make fun of something that belongs to another like his religion or country. And there is a wisdom in Arabic says: “your freedom ends when other’s freedom begins” And that means that people should stop what they do or say when they cross the limits of other’s freedom Also, the country can but punishments for the people who cross the limits so they will be afraid of doing something wrong and they will just follow the rules. In addition to that, people should learn how to respect other’s freedom of speech and other’s opinions. Government can teach students that in schools and universities because they can learn and understand freedom of speech better when they are in a younger age. This will help to make a good civilization with an educated people and will help to make an organized and an evaluated country. It also creates a democratic country with a happy nation and a successful life.