Before & After

Before

After centuries of turmoil, injustice, persecution, and abuse of civil liberties, freedom has become the symbol of success and the holy grail of any modern civilization. The United States is probably the most revered example of a society which has made freedom the centerpiece of it's Constitution and Bill Of Rights and continued freedom is vehemently protected and fought for all the time.

The trouble with freedom is that we want to have our cake and eat it too. We want the freedom to eat what we want whether it is unhealthy for us or not, yet we also want to be taken care of if such ill health makes us sick. We want the freedom to own guns and have them easily accessible in society but we also want our streets, homes, places of work, and schools to be safer from those that would do harm. We want freedom from the terror perpetuated by others but we also won't share our wealth so that others aren't so disillusioned that they find no other way than to engage in terrorist acts. We want freedom of rights to our own privacy but we also won't take the obvious and necessary steps to document and catalog our citizens with identity cards to alleviate numerous issues with crime, immigration, voting fraud, etc.

After

In Nutopia we acknowledge that freedom goes both ways where the individual has certain freedom but is also responsible to the community as a whole. So in the examples given above, people are free to eat what they want but if they eat in a way which promotes poor health then it is not fair to burden the community as a whole with taking care of them when they are sick because of it. Guns and weapons are not available at all in Nutopia so no one is armed. Every person in Nutopia has all their needs met and no one has more than anyone else so no one resorts to violence. Privacy of individuals in Nutopia is protected but if private information is needed by the community then it can be accessed.