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Question: Defend and criticize John Lock’s thoughts on freedom and private property in

the context of Pakistani society where corruption and inequalities exist to a high extent.

In the context of Pakistani society, following points Defend and Criticize john Locke’s thoughts:

Defending Criticizing
Freedom will give people of Pakistan In Pakistan there is a high level of inequality
opportunity to speak, and do what makes on the basis of color, cast etc. Freedom to do
them happy without any restrictions. anything will end up in violence, slavery, in a
Pakistan like atmosphere.
Freedom for all will help people to shine, who In a Pakistan like atmosphere where there is
are naturally talented. corruption and inequality is on peak, Talent
will not matter if all get freedom to do
whatever because people in power will help
the people that they have a relation with, or
whom they like, without any restrictions.
Private property belongs to the individuals In case of Pakistan, Corrupted individuals will
who put their labor effort into that property, forcefully occupy the private property of
which wasn’t yet claimed. others, Strong’s will dominate the weak, this
is not possible without a supervision like
government.
Every individual has equal right and freedom In case of Pakistan where snatching and
to put their efforts and labor into a thing to forcefully occupying, theft etc. are major
make it their property, like when a man makes issues, one can never have a safe property of
a statue with bricks, the statue becomes his his own, also this has flaws like If, you add 2
property. tanks of your water in ocean then ocean
doesn’t become your property.
In case of freedom for all, everyone will have That will only work if all men were made
equal rights to do what ever they want to and angels and there will be no bad humans,
world would be a better place. which is not possible, especially in case of
Pakistan.

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