Personal Choice/Attacks on It

    Every day newspapers come out with articles meant to inspire, articles that are supposed to make people think about the things that are going on in the world around them.  These articles, along with the television shows with the same aim, the internet sites along the same lines, and the other media outlets all have the same goal.  These media outlets all have their own opinion, which is a wonderful effect of allowing people to be themselves.  These outlets also have a common theme of letting people know the authors opinion on the subject of their choosing.  These articles are the basis of the freedom of every American citizen to express their opinion and their gained knowledge at their discretion. The irony in these articles is that they generally are propagandized in one direction or another.  If it is an abortion article, the author explains why or why not we should allow or disallow abortion, and tries to support it logically.  If the subject is minimum wage, the author tries to explain how raising minimum wage will benefit the workers, or the exact opposite.  I posted a blog on that same subject, so if you are bored you can read it.
    A majority of all things written in the mass media are forgetting one major thing that was a basis for our economy, our country, and the good of everyone as a whole.  The one thing that is often forgotten is personal choice.  Personal choice is the basic animalistic freedom, something that every human is born with.  The freedom to choose where we live, who we allow to live with us, what we eat, what color our hair is, what car we drive, what we do with our body, and so on, are the choices that form the basic essence of our human nature.  The ability to choose for ourselves not only allows us to go whatever direction we choose in our pursuits, but allows for the making of an individual.  What one aspect of human life is more important than the difference between us?  In a day and age where we are always compared to one another, nothing should be more sacred to us than those things that set us apart.  The differences among us are what make us who we are, and the similarities between are often things that we could not avoid.  If public policy followed the idea that we are intelligent enough to make decisions for ourselves, more people would be driven to do just that.  Despite the common opinion that "Americans are stupid", people have the basic right to choose simple things, such as if they smoke.  The federal government has gotten to the point where we as a society are almost afraid to do things, because of the ramifications in our checkbooks.  We as a society have allowed this laxness in political dealings through our own greediness.  At first it looks good to tax cigarettes even more or to raise the federal minimum wage.  What is often forgotten is the effect that these actions will have and continue to have on society; the loss of some amount of some level of personal choice and the freedom to decide what we do with our money, and our bodies.  Our minds, our bodies, our decisions are all similar in one aspect: they are our property and in no way should we be forced to give them away.  Any more, the giving away of the American individual continues on as social policy operates under the cloak of helping people, with the goodness of the action forgetting the plausible problems of the reaction.  All I am saying is that we should not give away our right to make choices for ourselves, and we should fight to the death for our right to make such decisions.  The day we lose our right to make decisions for ourselves is the day that all hope is lost.

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