Support of Your Country Despite of Personal Opinions (NO)
Uploaded by blututh on Nov 01, 2004
Your country, right or wrong?
Is it a person’s responsibility to support his country in whatever decisions said country participates in? This question is encompassed by a larger question, “What are the responsibilities of a government?” Some would say yes, and some would say no. I am of the latter, and I will tell you why. One is usually not presented with the choice of immigrating to another country, and few take the initiative and actually leave their country of birth by conscious decision. And one should not need to leave their country, because it is my further belief that it is the country’s duty to its populace to NOT infringe on their rights and allow them to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. Furthermore, I think that a country’s main concern, above all others, should be to provide the highest standard of living and provide the most comfortable lives it can provide for its inhabitants. I believe that residing in a country does not make it my duty to love, respect, or agree with my country. This is not only a matter of opinion; it is more importantly a matter of principle.
Emigration --
No one should be forced to leave their country for anything. For if a country is putting its peoples between a rock and a hard place, that is, leaving their country or staying, then it truly does not have the best interests of its people at heart. Instead it probably exploits the proletariat, the working class, and takes care of the major bourgeoisie, the upper class. This vision of a tyrannical plutocracy can fit into almost any country in the world. Much of this is opinion. No truly civilized country should be able to cause its people to come to the decision that the best course of action is to leave their homes and travel to a new, strange place and try to scratch out a way of life there.
National Responsibility—
I believe, since government is a creation of humanity, the main purpose and responsibility of ANY government is to enrich and deepen the lives of those living with it. Here is a perfect example; I was just about to type “enrich and deepen the lives of those living under it”. Those two words would have undermined the entire purpose...