The Ideal Society: The Giver's Society

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The world be a be mess if people make all the decisions or if they wouldn’t be able to make choices. To me the 2015 society has it up’s and down’s about it, but the Giver’s society also has its up’s and down’s. If there was a world that has in between i’d feel that would be perfect. The world we live in today people have too much of a choice on what they want to do in life. In the Giver’s society they have eliminated all choices. There should be a compromise in what the perfect society. A good mix of good and bad so that they can still make choices but have restrictions to them. The perfect society is not to eliminate the right to make your choices, but to just limit them. In the Giver the chief elder made the decision to make it so that

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