Express your thoughts to the following statement: The governing body should be allowed to do whatever they feel is necessary to protect its citizens.

Personally, I feel as though the government should not do whatever they feel is necessary to protect their citizens. For example, based on the book, The Handmaid's Tale, the government overrides any event that a woman tries to do. The government should be allowed to handle certain situations to an extent but they shouldn't take it too far. When the statement "too far" is used, it is describing how a person is treated and the way they live. Within the book, the women aren't allowed to have any feelings, consideration, or any type of ownership, self-value, or even self-worth. When the government takes away all of the power, worth, and value that any of the citizens have, then it gets to the point in which the government has too much control. Whenever the government gains way too much control, nothing will ever result in anything good. However, all of this depends on what the government's interpretation is regarding the protection of their citizens. For example, the government could keep a secret from their citizens so that uproar or upset wouldn't occur. On the other hand, the government starts to become unethical and untrustworthy when they start to work for themselves and what they think is right rather than the good of their people. In today's time and in the time during The Handmaid's Tale, I believe that the government should do everything they can to protect their citizens to an extent but once they abuse that right then the citizens have the right to fight for their rights too.