September 2010
Freedom and guidance 2
The personal freedom and its limits
The personal freedom
We want to express ourself freely and we want to configurate our life as we like it to do. Because we all claim this right for us, we must give it to all others too. The law has to accept that people are very different and that they have a right to their own personality. So it can happen that some of our neighbors maintain a lifestyle that we do not like. By respecting the right of the individual freedom we have to tolerate unpleasant and even ugly things, as long as they do not lead to a harm. The free personal space, we have to tolerate includes, that people are disgusting, do disgusting things and that they argue for irritating points of view.Distinguish limits and setting signals
As much freedom as possible, as much bondage as necessary - this is the maxim of a free society.A culture can only be successful, if a majority of people recognize and respect a frame of habits and rules for living together. It is therefore important that some habits and rules become ingrained during a childhood routine. As far as it is the schools responsibility to give shape to the habits of youngsters, the school must also have the means to enforce it. An engagement in leisure time or during the holidays can be ordered for a infraction. A youngster can improve his social skills by cleaning public facilities, by helping in the lunchroom or by helping and assisting younger children or elder people. It is not about punishing him. The idea is to make to him clear that if he does, what the society does not want, then he receive some activity to do that he does not want to do. It is in the interest of the society that a youngster learns already to deal with his dark sides and to see where and when he becomes a burden for himself and for others and how he can improve.