Should governments make decisions about people’s lifestyle, or should people make their own decisions?
<span style="font-size: 19.36px;">It could be argued that people are to be allowed to make all relevant decisions about their lifestyles by themselves alone. However, there are good reasons to put this position into question as I will explain in the following paragraphs.
In the first place, not all people are equally qualified to make decisions on their own. For example, healthcare and vaccines. There is a large consensus among doctors that vaccines are good and help prevent serious illnesses. Nevertheless, there are still parents who won't vaccinate their kids, despite putting their children at risk of preventable diseases. In these cases, government could pass a law making mandatory for parents to vaccinate their children to prevent these unnecessary deaths.
There is also a practical issue of coordination. Humans are social beings. This means they need to manage all the different choices people are making independently into a coherent social system that works for everyone. The creation and maintenance of this system is impossible without the government making or limiting, people choices. Congestion is a classic example of this coordination problem. If more people were forced to use public transit during peak hours, there would be fewer cars in the streets and therefore less congestion; making everyone arrive faster to their destination; although not as comfortable as they would prefer. Which means that, at least regarding traffic, the government needs to have an active role by "nudging" citizens into taking the options that work better for everyone.
On the other hand, What is the purpose of government? There are many who think authorities are not there to maximize the performance of a theoretical social system. Instead, they are elected to foster and protect the development of every individual, not guide it. When authorities begin to believe they know what is better for people, there is a risk that they turn people into slaves of the state instead of serving them. Under this view, the government should always let people make their decisions on their own.
In summary, there might be valid reasons to believe people should be allowed to make their decisions on their own. However, this leads to many practical problems that make this option unfeasible. Therefore, some coordination must be done through the government and some decisions about people's lifestyles are to be made by the government. Especially those related to public issues like traffic, pollution and public health. </span><br>
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
... options that work better for everyone. On the other hand, What is the purpose o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, nevertheless, regarding, so, still, therefore, at least, for example, in summary, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.3376753507 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2163.0 1615.20841683 134% => OK
No of words: 401.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39401496259 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96854486748 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536159600998 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 662.4 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.9802243957 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0434782609 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4347826087 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.30434782609 7.06120827912 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.432295340181 0.244688304435 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112936857662 0.084324248473 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.148240368115 0.0667982634062 222% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243460196386 0.151304729494 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0501570544267 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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