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Freedom does not require Liberty because Freedom does not require the state. Liberties are granted, not natural, Freedoms. Freedom sounds great and people love
by moate 2y ago
Freedom does not require Liberty because Freedom does not require the state. Liberties are granted, not natural, Freedoms. Freedom sounds great and people love to hype it, but doesn’t exist in a meaningful way in most advanced societies.
If we’re going to use proper nouns, we need to use them properly.
- BenFranklin100 2y agoGo live in the remote wilderness in your cabin. The rest of this will live within civilized society with our necessary liberties, thank you very much.
- moate 2y agoI advocate for no such thing but you want to have a discussion about things, you learn the vocabulary. It’s hard to talk about political theory when you use the words wrong just the same as someone calling the UI for Wordpress “the back end” makes it hard to have an engineering discussion. Liberties are fine, but don’t act like Freedom exists in modern society (or maybe any society) for the exact reason your flippant dismissal implies: the needs of other people. A poor invocation of Franklin indeed.