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Society is composed of various flaws. In the most democratic of societies, where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are self-evident, laws can be very unjust. Everyday neighbors may become your enemies in the blink of an eye, based on what they read or hear on the biased news. Society is unreasonable because laws governing it are contradicting, victims of the media are blind to the truth, and the average person is excessively materialistic. The laws that lay the foundations for a model society often don't make sense. In "Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?" Tim O'Brien shows how a young boy loses his life through society's governing laws, requiring him to be enlisted in an army he was unwilling to join. "He was pretending he was not in the war," (Pg