As revolutionary as the twenty-first century would appear to be, there is still the necessity to carefully balance personal freedoms and societal stability. In a time where rapid progressiveness is allowing for a widening acceptance for many facets of an individual’s life that were once forbidden, society must be careful in how it handles such changes. Changes are warranted as long as they do not impede on others’ freedoms or threaten the society’s stability. Such aspects include, alternative parenting methods that are vastly counter-cultural, alternative family structures, (including multiple polygamous marriages and “quivers” of children) and lastly, increased sexuality. Such choices require certain freedoms that in some ways are currently
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As time elapses, rapid changes (that initially alarm society because they are counter-cultural and human-beings are inherently afraid of change) gradually become more and more welcomed by a majority of the public. Ultimately, it is imperative to have a delicate and impartial relationship between an individual’s personal freedoms and the stability of the society in its entirety. As a citizen of the United States of America, one is endowed with certain freedoms under the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Such freedoms include, freedom of speech, freedom to practice religion, and the freedom of assembly. However, such rights guaranteed under the first amendment are not absolute, in that they cannot impede on others’ freedoms. Society beholds certain norms, including a binary dichotomous system “divided in a black-and-white way, into male or female” boxes. Often, an individual has his or her gender chosen for them through many formative experiences. These include, the toys he or she is supposed to play with, what they are supposed to wear, and what their temperaments are supposed to be. Thus, when Canadian parents, Kathy Witterich and David Stocker, chose to raise their child Storm, genderless, they were doing so using a simple
As time elapses, rapid changes (that initially alarm society because they are counter-cultural and human-beings are inherently afraid of change) gradually become more and more welcomed by a majority of the public. Ultimately, it is imperative to have a delicate and impartial relationship between an individual’s personal freedoms and the stability of the society in its entirety. As a citizen of the United States of America, one is endowed with certain freedoms under the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Such freedoms include, freedom of speech, freedom to practice religion, and the freedom of assembly. However, such rights guaranteed under the first amendment are not absolute, in that they cannot impede on others’ freedoms. Society beholds certain norms, including a binary dichotomous system “divided in a black-and-white way, into male or female” boxes. Often, an individual has his or her gender chosen for them through many formative experiences. These include, the toys he or she is supposed to play with, what they are supposed to wear, and what their temperaments are supposed to be. Thus, when Canadian parents, Kathy Witterich and David Stocker, chose to raise their child Storm, genderless, they were doing so using a simple