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Most people dismiss me when I say that people in general hate freedom. Freedom means that your opposition can say things you don't like and also it means you ha
by jbirer 6y ago
Most people dismiss me when I say that people in general hate freedom. Freedom means that your opposition can say things you don't like and also it means you have more responsibility.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoPeople hate the responsibility that comes with the freedom. Also, I would caution that desire for "freedom + responsibility for dealing with the the mess" vs being "told what to do and not having to deal with people who step out of line" is not distributed uniformly about the population.
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- bombcar 6y agoPeople want the freedom to do exactly what they like doing and the freedom to stop people from doing what they don’t like doing.
- andrew_v4 6y agoExactly. A commonly misunderstood aspect of freedom is that things you don't like or agree with may happen. This seems to be invoked (generally validly) when people argue against populism, but generally overlooked for most kinds of freedom.
- Leparamour 6y agoYour freedom ends where my feelings begin.