People can have the desire for freedom as well as the desire for limitations on freedom. This is because freedom and limitations on freedom are both needed to live peacefully. Absolute freedom cannot be achieved because when you take away limitations you take away freedoms. Without rules governing our society, people would be able to do what they want to each other without a certain punishment. When you examine the advantages and disadvantages of both arguments it becomes clearer.
             I believe that one of the significant reasons freedom is so desirable is because many the limitations on freedom are disallowing us the right to have control over our bodies. Controlling our bodies is the only thing that we have power over. A large number of the prohibited freedoms are crimes where you make your self the victim. Such as using drugs, prostitution, suicide, vagrancy, minor in possession, dodging the draft, entering the country illegally, and age limits on the purchase of pornographic materials. All of these crimes are punishable under the law. What puts these apart from most crimes is that you choose to victimize yourself (except sometimes in the case of prostitution if they are being forced to prostitute against there own will). What people choose to do to themselves, in my opinion, is the least of our worries as a country. The last thing the government should have control over is what you choose to do to yourself. As long as you are not directly harming anyone else in the process, the government should not waste their time and money on something that is so trivial in comparison to crimes involving a victim. In general, people do not agree with the government controlling what they can and cannot do to themselves. It should be no one's decision but your own if you want to be homeless, drug addicted, a prostitute. As long as the only damage you inflict is on yourself.
             I believe that these laws only exist in response to popular demand. An...