Personal safety is a feeling of being protected and safe. Personal safety can be expressed in the form of having a well-paid job, a house, friends or parents. We usually treat personal safety as a constructive phenomenon because it creates a bright and optimistic picture of life. Though, it can also be destructive, for instance, when a person threatens other people’s welfare, health or life by defending his personal safety. If an individual tries to enlarge his personal safety by making other people suffer, it’s surely a negative factor. Everyone has personal space, which borders can be violated, and in this case a person can express his actual eagerness to defend his personal safety. I believe that the notion of personal safety is a culturally-dependent notion. I think that in western world personal safety is a more tolerating notion. Western people require less for their personal safety. They can accept such things, which are not allowed by Eastern people. To us it seems an ordinary behavior, but in the East it is something more sacred and respected.

Usually personal safety is provided by the government of the country we live in. Depending on the level of national security measures, we feel safe or unsafe. Law enforcement agencies defend us from possible threats that exist in the society. Still, we can’t be totally secured because the government can’t track activity of all the people. Because in this case we deal with totalitarian state, which by definition represents suppression of people’s personal safety.