Government control over one’s life can be described as both good and bad, depending on who is asked, but there is one thing that is obvious; the government has control of all or many aspects of a person’s life, which is what must be thought about when considering whether the government should or shouldn’t have the right to control its citizens. The perfect life, where the government makes sure everyone is equal, and everyone has the exact same advantages and disadvantages as everyone else has, no matter how appealing, can be the downfall to humanity. Although it can be argued that government control is a good thing, the rights of a human belong to the human, and shouldn’t be controlled by a government. There are many examples of governments
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The most notable example would be that of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was one of the strongest governments that had complete control over its citizens, but fell due to internal failures of the communist system it was run by. Some of the many problems found in the way that the Soviet Union was run were “the lack of incentives for productivity (Watkins)”, western ideas becoming very popular with the youth of the Soviet Union (Brown 2009), and the economy was nearly destroyed from the inside and there was nobody who stood up to stop it, not even Communist Party officials. Another, lesser known, example of when government control failed is Somalia. The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party fell mainly due to rebellion and civil war, which were caused by increasing democratic views around the world and in neighboring Ethiopia and because the Somali government forces killed tens of thousands of people in many different ways in just a single year (Africa Watch Committee 1990), together which caused the people of the country to realize how horrible the government they were living under really was. Both the Soviet Union and Somalia fall under the category of the many countries where government control over individuals has failed, and prove why government control cannot be good for a
The most notable example would be that of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was one of the strongest governments that had complete control over its citizens, but fell due to internal failures of the communist system it was run by. Some of the many problems found in the way that the Soviet Union was run were “the lack of incentives for productivity (Watkins)”, western ideas becoming very popular with the youth of the Soviet Union (Brown 2009), and the economy was nearly destroyed from the inside and there was nobody who stood up to stop it, not even Communist Party officials. Another, lesser known, example of when government control failed is Somalia. The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party fell mainly due to rebellion and civil war, which were caused by increasing democratic views around the world and in neighboring Ethiopia and because the Somali government forces killed tens of thousands of people in many different ways in just a single year (Africa Watch Committee 1990), together which caused the people of the country to realize how horrible the government they were living under really was. Both the Soviet Union and Somalia fall under the category of the many countries where government control over individuals has failed, and prove why government control cannot be good for a