The Giver #1 (From Mr.T's blog)

Even though I've already done a blog. I'll just do another one.

3. I think that the reason why The Giver thinks that people making their own decisions is frightening is because if they happen to make the wrong decision, the outcome would be unpredictable, and therefore, possible dangerous or cause chaos or harm. This is something that the community strives to avoid, upset feelings, or possible chaos.
If people start to make their own decisions then they would learn to become more independent, meaning they would start to listen to themselves more and less of others. However, even if it isn't the nature of the people to defy the rules of the community they might start to 'stand out' and become more then normal and actually start to make a difference in life, and that is what the elders fear most. People upsetting the balance of things.
One of the examples I have to support this is when The Giver discusses the possibility of people making their own decisions, immediately Jonas thinks this is absurd and completely out of the question because he fears bout if they make the wrong decision.

The Giver #1

I think that having my future decided for me is not ideal. However, if I were to make an error in the process it would destroy my career, but if my future was decided for me that would give me less margin for error. Therefore my whole future would be pre-determined. Systems like this take out risk but also take out potential in people. The leaders of the community are extremely old fashioned, they've been living the same way as they were 100 years ago, so there is no progress just sameness and everyone is just a carbon-copy of everyone else.
Having decisions made for you is the equivelent of being told constantly what to do, but this this actually agreeing with it and not putting up a fight. I think that the community just take this for granted and think this as normal and they think that even wondering about the possibilities of making big decisions is absurd.
If living in a modern day amish would mean living in a world without hurt,pain,war, or anyother inplseant feeling but have to sacrifice your freedom and freethinking, then what would be the point of it if there was no progress?