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> Only if you define freedom as the capacity to do whatever is allowed or at least not expressly prohibited by the state without legal consequence So how do yo
by umvi 6y ago
> Only if you define freedom as the capacity to do whatever is allowed or at least not expressly prohibited by the state without legal consequence
So how do you define freedom? Anarchy?
- pinipedman 6y agoIt is not defined as such, but it certainly only seems possible in the absence of the state. One well known dictionary phrases the relevant definition as "the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action". Many nation states (although the US is the worst offender in this regard) and those whose interests a given state protects, have quite successfully convinced their citizenry to celebrate the limitations placed upon them and further to mislabel these limitations as freedom.