![]() ![]() he’s giving up his freedom (in MAJOR ways) for you and me. the guy who’s in a prison camp overseas to defend you? talk to him about sacrifice for the greater good, and then get back to me about how your glasses fog up. We can’t have a (healthy, in every dimension) society, if we’re not looking out for the society’s ultimate freedoms. Well, your “freedom” is now impeding ours. ![]() but, if you’re assigned to our group, and you’re either if you’re kid the corner who doesn’t want to do his homework and get an ‘f,’ sure, most of us will roll out the red carpet for your freedom. I know one of the analogies running around about this is the whole “group project” mentality. Start harming others with your words? you’ll see how quickly “free” speech, isn’t.įire your gun straight up in the air (‘harming’ no one) in a large, public gathering, and you’ll see how quickly you…’ll not be in public, any more. Underneath the united states freedom laws is a guiding principle of… “as long as it doesn’t harm another’s rights/freedoms/well-being/liberties.” At some point, when you've tried to reason with a person, when no attempt at rationality or empathy manages to placate them, when they're wholly determined to fight you head-on, then there comes a point when you have to accept the challenge and deal with them on their terms. I'm glad that somebody has the guts to aim directly for this runaway train and not beat around the bush. As with most things in the world, there has to be a balance between the interests of the individual and the interests of a society. This placement of individual "freedom" above all other considerations - including the well-being of all the humans around one - has been one of the most caustic, destructive forces in modern American society, and with climate change already having placed one foot in the proverbial door, will surely lead to our collective demise. (Here comes the "but".lol)īut I also think that the American concept of "freedom" has become like a runaway train with no brakes. ![]()
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