What Does It Mean To Be Free Essay

Some people think that restricting certain things such as smoking and driving certain cars that can increase pollution for the sake of other people's health is a restriction to our freedom, these people say that is their health and they should be allowed to. However when we analyze this actions we end up realising that said “freedom” is not really worth risking our health or even our lives. We focus so much on the negative that we forget the positive outcome not only to society but for ourselves as well. We overlook that reducing the spaces that allow people to smoke also reduces the victims of secondhand smoke and also keeps people that smoke from smoking more than they should and ending up getting addicted or with lung cancer, or that by regulating car pollution it prevents people from getting toxins in their lungs and die. When not only own own health but also other peoples is at stake, we must think of the greater good and realise that is way better to have less “freedom” than risking death because of the selfish act of
However, If people really want the freedom to lets say smoke, they should go to another place that allows them to smoke, a healthy environment is a choice that we can either embrace or not. These freedom restrictions allow people to have the healthiest life possible, and people choose to keep their unhealthy habits they should be free to do so, according to said