Question: Is freedom of speech
necessary in free society?
Decide whether you agree/disagree
completely with statement, partly agree/disagree with it, or have on definite
opinion
Freedom
of speech, which was one of the main problem in some place, is the one most
important thing that people have to struggle on in order to develop their
society. Neverthless, some people do not agree with freedom of speech because
of some particular reasons. I will elaborate some of the positive and negative arguments
of freedom of speech in the following paragraphs.
Firstly,
freedom of speech is needed because people can give their opinions, expressions
and arguments openly to improve the quality of their society. In the other words,
every people has the same rights to take a part in the society which means
there is no dominant or minority party or people. So that, every part in the
society could control or oversee each other in order to maintain the integrity
and reduce the problems. In addition, some of values, such as honesty,
politeness and mutual honour, would be obtained because of control role of
freedom of speech.
However,
there are some drawbacks that we have to remember. Sometimes, the more people
talk, the more difficult to arrange because of too much input that might be
hard to hear all the opinions. Furthermore, sometimes we find it difficult to
distinguish which opinions are good and honest due to the egoism of each people
in society.
In conclusion, from my
perspective, I prefer to apply freedom of speech in society rather than to delimit it. So that I agree that every
people in society have to speak up their opinions, expressions and arguments,
but we need to manage it well, so we can separate which is good or bad, honest
or deceitful opinions, expressions and arguments