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    The document discusses whether hippies of the 1960s were a positive force for social change or simply troubled youth. It provides two arguments: 1) Hippies withdrew from society through drug use and idleness, making them unable to enact real change, and 2) Hippies offered an alternative vision of society based on democracy, justice and individualism, leading by nonviolent example in opposing the Vietnam War. The response agrees with the view that hippies promoted peace, openness and tolerance as a positive alternative, and that opposing the war helped prevent more civilian deaths while improving the country's reputation.

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    Hippies

    Positive Force for Social Change or Troubled Youth?

    The issue: In the 1960s, thousands of mostly white, middle-class young people "dropped out" of mainstream
    society to live in hippie communities throughout the U.S. They opposed the materialism and conformity of the 1950s
    and the Vietnam War of the 1960s, advocating peace and love instead. Were the hippies a force for social change
    or simply troubled young people? Read the two arguments below and tell me what you think. Are Hippies troubled
    youth or a positive force for change? This should be 5-7 sentences and should be your opinion. Tell me how you
    feel, not just the information that is given to you below.

     Arguments that the hippies are troubled youth: Hippies have withdrawn into a life of idleness, drugs and sex
    to avoid a world they do not approve of rather than taking action to reform it. Therefore, the hippies cannot be
    considered leaders of a social movement; they are simply apathetic pleasure seekers. Furthermore, the hippie
    lifestyle is a dangerous one. Because their excessive drug use makes hippies passive and unable to defend
    themselves, they are often victims of violence.

     Arguments that the hippies are a positive force for change: Hippies offer an alternative to a troubled society.
    They are not apathetic but in fact are trying to create a society based on the nation's founding ideals of democracy,
    justice and individualism. The hippies lead by example. For instance, hippies do not just oppose the war but live
    violence-free lives as well. Even if some hippies have simply withdrawn from society, society is so sick that
    withdrawal from makes perfect sense.

    Hippies advocated nonviolence and love, a popular phrase being “Make love, not war,” for which
    they were sometimes called “flower children.” They promoted openness and tolerance as alternatives
    to the restrictions and regimentation they saw in middle-class society. At the end of day it’s innocent
    civilians and soldier dying not leadeds.I agree with the hippies to end the war because it’s costing
    civilians lives. And fighting and killing innocents will only put a bad image of your country out their to
    the world to see. And the hippies were helping the people so we should be like them more.

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