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You are not, you just have constant propaganda to that effect and you believe it because most of you never leave your country. And that is not just me personal

You are not, you just have constant propaganda to that effect and you believe it because most of you never leave your country. And that is not just me personal opinion. Going over a (incomplete) sample of freedom indices listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices we have: Rank 6 on the Economic Freedom index https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone=world&page=map&year=2016 https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone... Rank 17 on the Human Freedom index https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/human-freedom-index-2018.pdf https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/human-fr... Rank 45 on the Press Freedom Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index Rank 10 on the World Index of Moral Freedom http://www.fundalib.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/World-Index-of-Moral-Freedom-2018.pdf http://www.fundalib.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/World-Ind... Rank 53 in the Freedom of the World index https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2018-table-country-scores https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2018-table-cou... Rank 12 in the Index of Economic Freedom https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking/ https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking/ That is not a bad score overall, but is a far cry from an unchallenged "we are the most free".

jquery 8y ago
Not saying “US NUMBAH ONE” but those indexes are just biased to whatever the index creators prefer. I could make one that heavily indexes gun rights, lack of hate speech laws, gross income per capita, or even military strength and suddenly we’re number one if not close to it. It would be just as valid a ranking. In other words those lists are largely rubbish. Never mind they rarely break things down by demographics, preferring to look the other way.
- petschge 8y ago
  The problem with what you choose and how you weigh it is exactly why I listed more than one index. And btw: I did not skip over any index because it lists the US as number one, I only skipped indices that require registration to get the PDF and such. Literally NONE of the indices I found has the US as number one.
blancheneige 8y ago
what's more important, freedom or perception of freedom?

jquery 8y ago

Not saying “US NUMBAH ONE” but those indexes are just biased to whatever the index creators prefer. I could make one that heavily indexes gun rights, lack of hate speech laws, gross income per capita, or even military strength and suddenly we’re number one if not close to it. It would be just as valid a ranking. In other words those lists are largely rubbish. Never mind they rarely break things down by demographics, preferring to look the other way.

petschge 8y ago
The problem with what you choose and how you weigh it is exactly why I listed more than one index. And btw: I did not skip over any index because it lists the US as number one, I only skipped indices that require registration to get the PDF and such. Literally NONE of the indices I found has the US as number one.

blancheneige 8y ago

what's more important, freedom or perception of freedom?