I think that there are actually a lot of different parts to this prompt, and the one that attracts my attention the most is actually within the first 3 lines. It is as follows: "The notion that we have the right to choose what we do, why and how, and that that right should not be removed by any force outside of our own free will is ingrained in all people across the globe." At first glance, I absolutely agree with this statement. However, after thinking further upon it, I start to diverge from this statement's beliefs. I believe that here, in America, this absolutely holds true. If we think about places outside of the United Sates though, things become a little more shaky. The first example that comes to my mind is the television documentary that I saw a while back about the international food and clothing industries. I constantly find images flashing through my head where I see Southeast Asians slumped over a sewing machine or cleaning fish to stuff into a can, all just so that they can make the bare minimum amount of money that they need to survive on.
Thinking back to the sentence that grabbed my attention, we see that it claims that the right to choose our lifestyle should not be removed by any force outside of our own free will is ingrained in all people across the globe. For those people in the factory, there was no freedom of choice. Either they work at their towns factory, or they starve. I have a hard time believing that we human, all around the world, understand and are able to practice free-will.
It may be that you have to be rich to be free. I think that it is certainly true that you have to be rich to be able to buy food that is not from the industrial system of production. Those workers that you mention are very much at the mercy of the food industry -- not to mention whatever industry is paying them to make the things that they make.
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