Silence equaling death depends on what is being silenced. Silence can cause death in many ways. In the case of social and civil silence and suppression indeed mean death. Mass death. Civil silence would cause the death of human inalienable rights including freedoms to speak and voice the opinions of civilians everywhere. This type of social silence has been attempted throughout history and has never worked. An example of this is when protesters who fought for civil rights back in the 50s were attacked by police and authority. They were people who fought for the equal rights for any person. These people were oppressed, but that didn’t stop them. When people become silenced either by a government or a overbearing power they immediately lose their ability to let any information travel between the two groups. This can lead to lost strength in the group of the people. An example of this is shown in highly oppressed communist countries such as early Russia and North Korea. The people of North Korea don’t get any international information from the outside world because it is highly regulated. If they knew that the world truly did not approve of them, they would most likely demand for change in government. This type of silence therefore equals the death of individual freedoms due to ignorance. Also if a group of people are silenced, they lose their ability to spread information. If the people are not given the chance …show more content…
I was a part of that minority until the second half of the 9th grade. Ever since social media platforms and enhanced forms of text messaging became available for phones, people sought for them. They helped you connect and communicate with one another 24/7. I knew this very well at the time, in fact. I used to sit right in the middle of my middle school lunch table and find that I always looked left and right at the kids around me. Each one of them carried the latest and greatest cellular devices you could buy on the market. Everyone idolized them, compared them, and flaunted them. I desperately wanted one. I remember presenting countless numbers of my arguments to my parents for days in a row. The first argument I tried though, was a bandwagon argument. “Mom! All my friends have one”, I would say. I didn’t want to be part of the phone-less minority. I just wanted to fit in with everyone else. However, every time I asked, their reply was, “No son, you’re far too young to have a phone to yourself”. My efforts were always it vain it seemed. I was denied for my reason using bandwagon techniques. In fact, none of my techniques worked. How I actually got my first cell phone was when my brother started driving. My parents wanted to be able to keep in touch with him in case of an emergency and was planning on