Progress and Freedom
...thought they were making progress when they crucified Jesus. Then there’s the opposite side of the spectrum as far as progress goes like finding treatments for cancer, recycling, or finding a more efficient form of gas. This made me think that different people have different ideas of progress but progress should never interrupt another human being’s freedom. After day dreaming about my first conclusion and how in the world I was going to write a full page essay about just that my mind started to wander again. This made me realize how hypocritical America really is. A place that stands for freedom that chooses to not let other countries do the same. Other countries can only be free if they believe in the exact same freedom we do, that doesn’t seem right. Maybe we shouldn’t throw around the word freedom so loosely. Freedom is the right for a person to do whatever they want. So in a sense freedom can never really be achieved. There is nowhere on this world where any one man or woman does whatever he or she pleases. Yet again my mind started wandering like a lost camper in the middle of Big Bear. This time I came to this conclusion, many times in order to make progress for one’s self you must stop someone else’s progress. This happens all the time in the real world. If an employee wants a promotion he must stop someone else from getting that same promotion. It’s survival of the fittest, if it came down to giving up my life over someone else’s I don’t think I could. I don’t believe that anyone really could. Many people would say they could but if put in that situation could they really d...