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It is ironic, but not necessarily nuts. Another case of removing freedoms to promote freedom is much of criminal law. Why does the state restrict my freedom to
by nothrabannosir 12y ago
It is ironic, but not necessarily nuts. Another case of removing freedoms to promote freedom is much of criminal law. Why does the state restrict my freedom to kill people?
When your freedom reduces the global "freedom", the sum of everyone's freedoms after your action, it might make sense to prevent it.
In spite of, and because: freedom.
Not saying the way RMS is doing it is good, that's a different matter. But restricting freedom, for freedom? Yes, very possible.
RMS may be nuts, that doesn't stop him from being right. Which, by the way, he turns out to have been on many more counts than some of us initially thought.
- belorn 12y agoAnd this is why some call it liberty. You can give a slave freedom by helping them to escape, but you have not provided liberty if the slaver can just hunt down and recapture the free'ed slave. John Locke said on the subject of liberty: "Freedom is constrained by laws in both the state of nature and political society. Freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature. Freedom of people under government is to be under no restraint apart from standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society and made by the lawmaking power established in it. Persons have a right or liberty to (1) follow their own will in all things that the law has not prohibited and (2) not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others."