Three Cheers For The Nanny State Summary

This Is Important.
Life, LIberty, and the pursuit of happiness, The 1st amendment right, two things put into place, to allow us to be who we are, and who we want to be, It is important for people to make their own decisions, because forming opinions and being an individual, is what matters in life. If making decisions wasn’t important, we wouldn’t have amendments and spelled out rights, that made it so we had the right to be an individual, Also in the aspect of success, I think being successful never measures who anyone is, because no matter what you tried, and made what you believe in known.
Success, noun; the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, the the attainment of popularity or profit. Success is something other people measure for

yourself. If people like what you’re doing, you’re successful. If your “attainment of popularity” is still in tact, then you're still in tact, or so to speak. The aspect of success seems to be constantly measured by people who are important, but why can’t this “accomplishment of an aim or purpose” be measured by oneself? I ask you this question because if all of your decisions were made by someone important, would anything you do be important to you? Or just the important people? Decisions should not be made by the measure of success, popularity, or profit? These things should be made by you, certainly Because if something is important to you,and you stand up for it and make that decision, then you are successful, even if no one important can recognize that, at least you can.
In the argumentative essay, “Ban the Ban” by Karin Klein, the author is arguing that the New York soda ban that limits consumers to smaller amounts of soda is wrong, and that “these laws are strippign away our natural rights. when you take away options- you no longer have a choice.” Klein also argued that “Its people's right to make a decision to drink soda. Once the government makes your decisions it becomes a slippery slope and in her opinion goes for everything this country stands for.” But something bigger that should stand out to anyone in this essay is that, “LIfe is all about choices- informed choices” Making informed decisions based on the facts, can bring one to make assumptions, such as the laws based on the soda laws brought the author from the argument essay “Ban the Ban” stated that “Life is all about choices” and that “these laws are strippign away our natural rights.” when you take away my options- I no longer have a choice.” These very controversial opinions were made based on the author's decisions, their own decisions in life. The authors opinion opened us up to new points on why the soda ban was unfair in their eyes, which helps us make our own decisions on whether we agree or disagree on things like the soda ban. The opinions being opened up to us, ven on a topic, like the soda ban that seems so random, it gives us opportunity to think, and create opinions.
In Freedom of the Press? (p. 258) The author expresses that “The framers of the constitution believed that if government could censor opinions they didn't like the public would be less educated- it is counter productive to limit students- the more opinions students are exposed to the better equipped they will be in real life situations.” Less educated. Less successful, even if the outcome is failure, Being subsided from the opinions of others is not only ridiculous, but kind of stupid. If the government decided that the 1st amendment would give people the right to express themselves, taking that right from kids in the school is systems is counter productive. These kids are becoming their own person,, forming opinions making a decision to write a paper simply discussing things that they feel is important to express, this makes children less educated, less equipped to enter the real world. Making decisions is a lifelong skill. And being limited in that just because you're in a school, not only doesn’t make sense, but is simply ignorant.
In “Three Cheers for the Nanny State” (277) by Sarah Conly, Conley argues, our minds, and argues how we trip things up, She talks about how, “It is not soda, it's because such a ban suggests that sometimes we need to be stopped from doing foolish stuff- this has become highly controversial.

we have a vision of ourselves as free rational human beings who are totally capable of making all the decisions we need to have a good life but it's false this is known as cognitive bias or how our minds trip us up. Also optimism bias which is when we tend to think that bad things that happen most definitely won't happen to us,” like ingesting too much soda, and simply, that we shouldn’t make our own decisions but how I see it is, Being successful is self-fulfilling, it makes a person feel as if people care about what they care about, which makes them feel valued, and who doesn’t like feeling valued. But sometimes being successful isn’t logical. And you have to be the only one that believes in something, but if it is important to you, and you feel like it's something that needs to be heard nothing should stop you from forming an opinion because, if you don’t you’ll be stuck having people telling you what’s

what.
In the story, by Aleeza Kazmi this teenage girl speaks about her experience with labeling, stereotyping, based on color.

Color she wasn’t aware separated her from her perfectly peach toned friends, in her first grade class, the class was drawing self portraits, and when her teacher faintly told her she was the same as her friends, and that she wasn’t peach, that she was confused as the teacher muttered “aleeza that's not your color” and she was confused by this because she didn’t understand how colors can belong to people. And she hands her a brown nub of brown crayon that unwrapped and gross. And the teacher's hands it to her and says “aleeza this is your color” and Aleeza is still confused because she doesn’t understand because how can colors belong to people. Years went by and she “put the topic on the self” Later when she was in the 6th grade, the class was going around asking each other questions and This boy comes up to me and asks “what race are you” and I think back and she tells him she is brown. And he says what do you mean you're brown, brown isn’t a race. And the 6 year old Aleeza is screaming and now she's screaming and she's saying “Who are you to tell me what I am. If I say i'm brown then I'm brown and deal with it. Aleeza was belittled by a teacher, who was older, and she didn’t get a chance to tell her what that meant to her, she listened to her, and was affected by what the teacher had done, so much that when she was put in the same situation when she

was older, instead of letting someone step all over her, she stood up for her decisions to be herself. She made a decision and took a stand for something she believed in, she was strong, and brave. And that's exactly was making your own decisions can do to a person, it can make them level headed, strong, people.
Having passion, believing in your decisions, is an important skill. Many people, who are successful measure and make decisions, based on what more people will like, but sometimes being controversial, and different from the norm, is what breaks us away from that safety net of success, and helps us hold our own, to be our own person. So is making your own decisions important? Is it important to learn from failures? Yes, It is important, because forming opinions and being an individual, is what matters in life.