"Freedom to harm yourself" 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 …
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…cases. It is one thing for a mother to tell her son to wear his seatbelt or to not eat ice-cream. It is different, however for the government to intervene in this situation. Basically, there is little difference between the government telling you that you can't be unhealthy and telling you to wear your seatbelt. The right to harm one's self is so fundamental that it is wrong for the government to take it away.