spectrumc01
I give you....the TRUTH
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Everyone speaks as though we actually have freedom, and have even been free for quite some time now. But in reality we gave up our freedom when we started living together in societies. It was subtle at first, when neighbors miles apart from one another started putting up fences, that is when we needed laws deciding how we are going to live with one another. At that moment true freedom ended.
Now as more and more people crowd together and their interaction with one another increase more and more laws must be made so we can live peaceably with each other. Each law restricts our freedom.
Now we fight with each other over whose freedom will be eliminated next in the form of a brand new law. Every session congress goes to work, and every session they pass laws. If they did not pass laws they would not have a job. If we keep sending them back to Washington they will keep passing laws that limit our freedom even more.
The first act of civilization was to declare freedom dead.
On the contrary, without society and the incumbant laws and regulation, there can be no individual freedom.
Everything about society is the orchestration of the efforts of the many to ease the strain of survival and increase the individual's ability to conduct himself in a manner that is free of fear and directed by reason and spitituality.
Without Society and the incumbant laws and regulation, we are subjects to the whims of those who are more strong or malevolent among us. Without society, there can be no freedom.
The charachteristics of the society in which we we live can enhance or deprive freedoms relative to the ideal, but, absent society, there is no freedom.
This is why those who seek to dominate through fear and terror seek first to dismantle society or choose to operate in areas already devoid of functioning social structures.
From your position may I conclude that you are a liberal and only through structure and regulation may society grow and thrive? You have illustrated my point for me when you speak of those strongerer and more malevolent. The stronger and malevolent are the rich and big business and regulation is put into place to protect us from them. When business complains of too much regulation they decry their lack of freedom, should we stand our ground against them? and what of the ramifications of such actions? are we prepared for them.
It would seem those on the right want to claim lack of freedom to do what they want in the financial arena, and then claim that too much freedom in the social arena is destroying America. The Left want to regulate the financial arena claiming consumer protection limiting the freedom of business, and then champion social freedom to the max claiming as a free society it is only right. Which is correct, they both want to limit freedoms but only in certain areas?
There are degrees of freedom, and the freedom of which I speak is true and total freedom, but it can only be achieved in a society of one.