Post # 9..............."His-tory Repeats Itself"

We are not animals, so do not treat us that way. This is the way many felt during the Revolutionary Period. The government was the puppet master and it ruled and controlled all men. The law enslaved men, forbidding men from being human. Men had no freedom, their freedom was tied into the dictatorship of the law.

This was the nature of men, and in today's society things are somewhat the same. The law still enslaves most men. The power of the is to keep men at bay, just like animals. Society is only allowed to do what the law allows. Freedom is

not a choice. The law was a legal system input by the power men in government to enslave men.
John Locke thought that men by nature should govern themselves and not be governed by other men, which was a form of slavery. This is the same system that exists in today's society. Men are enslaved by the system that the government imputed, which shows that history repeats itself.

Now David Hume, on-the-other-hand, saw things different. He believed that their should be a balance between the government and man. "There is nothing more apt to surprise a foreigner than the extreme liberty we enjoy in this country of communicating whatever we please to the public, and of openly censuring every measure which is entered into by the king or his ministers." Foreigners or slaves were forbidden during the revolution period and they still are forbidden equal rights as normal citizens during the twenty-first century. Hume believed that their should be some sort of balance in the power of the citizens and the power of the government, instead of all the power going to one particular side. This is the way I believe our society should be ran today. The law should not be set to rule men, but instead to treat men as an equal.

I believe that both men are right in what they believe in or saw in society. Life should be lived freely as God intended for all men.







                                                                                    Post # 9



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