Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, even though they might deny such a preference.- GRE Issue 120

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Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, even though they might deny such a preference.- GRE Issue 120

Do people prefer constraints on absolute freedom of choice, regardless of what they might claim? I believe so, because in order for any democratic society to thrive it must strike a balance between freedom and order.

History informs us that attempts to quell basic individual freedoms--of expression, of opinion and belief, and to come and go as we please invariably fail. People ultimately rise up against unreasonable constraints on freedom of choice. The desire for freedom seems to spring from our fundamental nature as human beings. But does this mean that people would prefer absolute freed...

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