Research Paper

Is freedom wise? In many cases yes. A person should be free to pick which color shirt he or she wants to wear to go out today without being bounded by rules and regulations. Of course the benefits are great, the peace of mind that one gets by knowing they are free to do whatever they want is undoubtedly unequivocal. For thousands of years the world has been strained by this concept of freedom. Egyptians and Africans have been stripped of their free will and forced to work constantly against their will, decreed by someone else’s will. Many have been punished and evened killed by detesting and refusing to succumb to the will of another. Thankfully in the world we live in today slavery has been abolished world-wide and it is just a mere thing of the past. Today, freedom is predominant world-wide and many people are able to use their freedom to do many things. Many have gone to school, built houses, built families, invest their time wisely, all due to the fact that everybody is free. But is freedom really wise? What if one makes a wrong choice and chooses poorly due to the fact that they have freedom, then how should they be dealt with? In many cases in the world today we have legal systems and law enforcements to punish those who use their freedom the wrong way and abuse their rights. But there are other free choices that one makes that is wrong in many ways but is seen by the public eye as a benevolent deed.

The public eye ultimately judges what is right or wrong, sometimes it’s wrong and sometimes it’s right. It is a fact in the world we live in today the public does not want to be around anything that is immoral or bad. For example if a mother sees somebody smoking a cigarette in a public park then she would tell her child to stay away from that person for the fear of the child’s health or curiosity. The same principle applies predominantly in the world we live in today. There is a concept of what is right and what is wrong, and mostly everybody tries to do what is right. The public eye does not see all though, there are many things it is blinded to. This concept of free public education for one. What are its benefits? More kids go to college, many kids get a good job, and ultimately they live a better life. Is the life they live really better though? Morality can be a challenge for many of us (Doren 29). The struggle to do what is right can be a challenge sometimes. In the year 2014 there were 30,035 arrests in the United States. Which means that over 30,000 people acted unlawful or immoral in the public eye and was therefore punished by facing jail time. But what about the immoral deeds that the public is blinded to? What happens to those people that cause them? In all cases they walk away free without facing no punishment. It is as if they did not even commit the deed, so because the public does not notice the malevolent deed it thus continues to occur. Public education in the U.S. has been occurring for hundreds of years (Bildung.de). It has been proven to work and ultimately make the country more suitable to reside in. Small kids start going to school in their early years up until they have reached the end of their teenage years, and a lot of them continue to pursue their education and go to college or other educational institutes to learn more and get a good job, the value of education is priceless indeed. Education is nonetheless the key to success, in this life. What about the life we live after we die though? Education cannot come to our aid then.

There are distinctive concepts of God in many religious ideologies. But there are two ideas which is constant and stagnant in all religions. That concept is that he is one, and he is righteous (Doren 9). He is in fact superior in power and decrees all. None is like him indeed. Most of the world knows this, yet we still go against him, why? Why is it that we know what the right thing to do is, but yet we still make the wrong choices? There is a stigma behind freedom of choice. Most people believe that if everybody is free to do whatever he or she desires then no fault will be brought upon them on the Day of Judgment and they will be exonerated. What we don’t realize is that even though we are free to do whatever we please, God sees all, and he is the most righteous, and he will judge everybody fairly on the Day of Judgment. The top two religions in the world today are Christianity, and Islam. In both of these religions there is a common belief of life after death, and the Day of Judgment. Both religions indeed believe that one day this world as we know it will come to an end, and God will judge us all fairly, based on how we acted in the world while we had our life. The public knows this to be a fact, yet we still act like we do not believe it and act immorally. The reason we do this is fairly simple. We feel as if life is difficult to live, and the only way to live a good life is by going against God and acting immorally. In school teachers would always tell students to plan for the future and always think about tomorrow, because life is short and it could end at any time. Not just teachers, adults and anybody with the proper maturity and wisdom would tell this to the adolescence because it is indeed true and correct. One should always plan for the future, for one day it will certainly come to an end. We choose to put logic over religious faith because logic is how the world works. If one stays in the sun too long they become hot and thirsty, that is logical. If one has a headache they take Tylenol or other pain killer medicines to alleviate the pain, that is logical. This concept of God is not logical to us though, therefore we don’t succumb to it. What we do is we try to make it seem like we are all about God, even though we may act against him. The United States of America is the most powerful country in the world, which is a fact. In our nationwide pledge of allegiance we say “under God”, but is that how we really act? Do we act as if we are truly under God? If we was to truly act that way then we would submit to all of his will and do what’s right, but yet we don’t. Yes, there are many concepts of God but everybody in the world can agree that he in fact does exist and everybody should submit to his wishes. But yet we don’t teach our young ones about him and we even make it a possibility for atheists to live in this country without being treated any different. We say we are all for God yet we constantly disobey him and go against his wishes, simply because we feel it’s the right thing to do. But how does one truly know what is right or wrong to do? Is it what makes us happy the most or what makes others happy? The answer is we don’t know. We are all completely oblivious and ignorant in doing what is right or wrong, we are all just going off instincts. But how was those instincts placed on us? It couldn’t have just been bestowed to us from the sky and out of nowhere, no, somebody or something had to purposefully give it to us so we can be able to distinctively choose what is right or wrong. The phrase “always follow your heart, it’s never wrong” is constant in the world we live in today. That phrase had to derive from somewhere. Its origins are not unknown. Many people in the past have indeed followed their hearts and they have realized that it was indeed the right choice to make and they were content with their decision.

Free public education should be regulated worldwide. All free public education does not offer any type of religious classes (Kozol 98). Just because religion is a touchy subject does not mean that we should not touch upon it or just leave it alone. Some people are still very skeptical in the idea of God existing, that is why we do not teach our young ones about God, we fear that some people may not agree or conform to the idea that’s being taught to their child and in return they may rebel against it. What we fail to realize is that by us not choosing to make a decision we are making the wrong choice. In both the Bible and the Quran it states that God should be taught to every individual worldwide so we all can know and understand him. Yet we rather teach math or science to our young ones because we feel it may help them live a better life. One may ask, “what about all the different religions in the world, how would we know which one to teach?” Simple, give everybody a choice. Only teach the predominant religions in the world and each student can have an option on which class to take based on their religious preference. Nobody in the world knows all. One can be the smartest scholar in the world and have many degrees and accolades, but if that person does not know about God, then he or she knows nothing. We all have to act quickly. Yes, there is a big fear and concern about this topic. But that fear should not halt our progression to do what is right. We all have to act quickly, because God is watching, and he oversees all.