Few recall the Bill of Responsibilities that accompanies the Bill of Rights. Unconfined freedom can be as devastating as legalised oppression
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“Freedom to decide one’s own destiny” is about self-determination; the liberty to live your life the way you choose to and to take your own decisions of what to do or not to do. But too often we see the misconception that this connotation of freedom is assumed to mean one can do whatever one wants to do, including being selfish, unethical, corrupt and exploiting those who have no power.
Unless we exercise responsibility while we enjoy all the privileges of our constitutional freedom, it leads to chaos. Exercising any privilege or right without consideration of our responsibilities is likely to infringe on other people’s rights or be destructive. We see too often intellectualisations of whether a behaviour or act was strictly legal or illegal, and whether someone was found guilty by a court of law or not.
The freedom to make our own decisions carries the liability to do so responsibly and keep the greater good in mind. Many of these responsibilities have been noted in the— an insightful, thoughtful and practical document that outlines the responsibilities that correspond with each of the rights found in the Bill of Rights, in Chapter 2 of the Constitution.
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