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Deconstructing freedom might be a fun exercise, it is, however, completely unrelated if it comes to criticising dystopian state oppression. (Which the linked

by fwn 8y ago

Deconstructing freedom might be a fun exercise, it is, however, completely unrelated if it comes to criticising dystopian state oppression. (Which the linked article is about.) Torture & forced reeducation camps are wrong regardless of some other wrongness somewhere else.

teekert 8y ago
This I agree with. I'm just saying that the free choices of people in the western world are probably not as free as they could be. Is utopia a more regulated place? This feels like a dirty proposition to my capitalist (minus the tumors it has been growing lately) mind. But the seeds of doubt have been placed...
- simonh 8y ago
  Fair enough, but what’s stopping you from doing something about it? I mean except for other individual free citizens generally not happening to agree with you.
  - teekert 8y ago
    To be honest I just like posting hard statements that I think are logical conclusions but would like to see proven false with even better arguments :)
    - simonh 8y ago
      The thing is, it’s coming across as implicit support for an oppressive totalitarian regime.