Law In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

Law, for me, is something that fascinates my inquiry mind and curiosity, is absolute and controversial, is precise and abstract, can be cruel or decent and always brings about significant influences on people’s lives as being a system of regulating individuals in a state. My initial interest in law stemmed while I was thinking what liberty and equality are, and how and to what extent we could or should guarantee those conceptual entities for individuals as inalienable rights of all human beings. I have been made to think the meaning of liberty in junior high school as I was always given choices to do anything based on the school's principle to develop abilities to self-manage, where I was responsible for every action to take in a society called school. Although there were no rules, I tried to make a more appropriate decision which reflects on my own ethics so that I do not have the wrong idea of freedom. I have also read a story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut in English class and it made me think what true equality is. Though everyone was made equal by law in the story, no one seemed to be happy as the meaning of equality here was to treat anyone the same, resulting in an elimination of all diversity people have. I believe that …show more content…
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