▶ Your Answer :
Among the important
human rights, freedom takes the highest priority as proved in the first
sentence of the Korean constitution; all the citizen should be guaranteed
freedom. However, the execution of the freedom should follow the execution of
responsibilities. When someone enjoys freedom but does not follow the
responsibility, we can find the necessity to limit the freedom. I would explain
further details below.
First of all, when
a person’s misbehavior disturbs other people’s peaceful lives, the person
should be regulated with his behavior. For example, in Korea, there is a law
forcing a criminal, who repetitively rapes girls, to wear an electronic
bracelet in order to alarm others and to permanently record the crime history on
the criminal’s body. This law is regarded to be appropriate since by
understanding the history of repetitive crime-commits of a person, public will
be careful when they face the dangerous person. Moreover, according to the
statistics center, after beginning this policy, the rate of rape commitments
has decreased a lot. Like this, to keep the safe and peace for the entire
society, a small fraction of risks should be prevented in advance, although the
prevention limits a freedom of certain people.
Also, to effectively
run an organization, some confinements for freedom are inevitable. To be
specific, if all the people do whatever they want in a society, the society
must be kept in an entire chaos. This is why many controls are included in
legislatures. For example, we can guess a company without any time regulation,
allowing employee to come and go home whenever they want. In this case,
employees will hardly meet in the office each other, and thereby even having a
meeting will be difficult. This is hard for the company get an advantage of
collaboration among employees and will result in a low productivity.
To sum up, I think
that the freedom cannot be unconditionally guaranteed. The responsibility as a
good member should go first before freedom. If the freedom is enjoyed without
appropriate regulation, the peace of the public can be hardly sustained. In
addition, effectivity of a society is also achieved by a proper control of
individual’s freedom.
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