Blog 1: Freedom vs. Equality

Freedom in America is something our country fought very hard to achieve. We are a free country, but we still have our limits to freedom. We havefreedom, but you cannot abuse the freedom that we have.Equality is saying that everyone in America is being treated equal. It issaying that everyone is going by the same rules. These means citizens aregoing by the same rules that the government are. It is also stating thatone man is not richer than another man.I think when freedom and equality come into conflict it is taking awayfrom one or the other. It seems to me like freedom and equality areopposites. If you are free, you are free to be who you have worked to be. If you have worked to become wealthy then you deserve to be wealthy. Ifeveryone is equal it is taking away from freedom.I think that if we lived in a country that was about equality it wouldsolve a lot of the problems that we do have. There are wealthy peoplethat are throwing away food every day, and then in other parts of thecountry you have people starving. If everything was equal it would makeour world a better place. I don’t see America ever being completelyequal. Americans worked hard to get the freedom that we have and that isnot something that would be given up in anyway.