This I Believe Essay

Gabriel Chupco
3/29/17

I believe I should always stick to my morals, for breaking from my own moral code means that I am

describing myself as immoral by my own standards. I believe human morals are defined by our own

sense of emotion, and that the purest form of debate is to debate such senses, refining and accounting

for the everyday mistakes we make as humans beings.

I believe the most base fundamentals of a government are to not only govern society, but to encourage

its moral growth, facilitate civilized debate, and to devise means for society to solve all problems it

creates, for all problems society suffers are inherently derived from society itself indeed, there has

shockingly never been a time where society has suffered from a fault that was not its own, from the

time of the Greeks and Egyptians to our now sophisticated nation-states.

I believe that the power of government is not beholden to the public, necessarily, but rather individuals,

specifically those who have both a will to speak of their morals and a desire to advance society around

them according to such, for it is only when people have spoken and acted that society has responded

and the government has acted, and indeed only when one speaks and acts that they may prove they

have a right to voice their concerns, and exist in the eyes of others. Without these individuals, both

society and state would stagnate to fanaticism, advancing toward their own ends, be they material or

spiritual, and that is when we see the freedoms of the public restricted in the name of the public good,

by one power or another, resolved only by the return of free debate, be it by words or action. It is,

therefore, in the best interest of nations and their respective states to preserve the free will of the

individual, though they may not realize such free will has been compromised(directly or indirectly,

with purpose or by accident) until it is too late to turn back while leaving everyone at hand with peace

in mind.

I believe the purest form of free will is not just the ability to speak and act freely within the limits of

moral sanity, but also that it is ensured that such speech is heard, and that no person is locked into a
pattern of actions that they cannot escape, for it is then that they lose their free will and may be

described a slave, be it in the most literal sense, or by means less direct.

I believe the strongest form of a state is one that does not just uphold the right of society and

individuals, but seeks to intertwine itself with the people it protects, so as to further both itself and the

public by means most wholesome, ensuring the survival of both the nation and its state in all aspects,

and thereby ensuring that all in society are true individuals contributing to it, and that the government

may, indeed, derive omnipotence from such, creating for itself a utopian existence.