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| Total Freedom Doesn't Exist. |
| Total Freedom doesn't exist, not even in the United States. By law you are under physical restraint, exposed to external control by the high power of the government which has complete dominance over the actions you can and can not do. You may have national or political independence, and be exempt from bondage or slavery, and obtain the right to enjoy all the privileges or special rights of citizenship but you are still repressed in many ways. If total freedom existed rules and law would be absent, and chaos and havoc would be relevant. |
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We do have a lot of freedoms, but total freedom doesn't (and probably never will) exist. |
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Not in current society it doesn't.
"Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." -Herbert Marcuse- |
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Got me there. |
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Paper or plastic, Coke or Pepsi; well, maybe not TOTAL freedom... |
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It couldn’t exist in the natural world. Everything has consequences and limitations. However if
you understand the limitations and are willing to suffer the consequences you can be pretty dang
free. |
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Gravity holds you back to. For me to have complete freedom i would have ot be able to do "whatever"
i want. This includes defie gravity. Total freedom can only exist without matter. If a rock had
total freedom it would have the ability to defy the laws of physics and make matter to make itself
larger. Now if your talking about complete freedom within physics then sure government holds you
back all the time. |
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Not in the United States. But there are societies that have no government. You know, primitive
people that still live in the rain forest. I guess that's pushing it, though.
But you are right that every society has rules, written or not, and that breaking them has
consequences that people generally don't want to experience. |
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Well total freedom can exist at any moment, we just don't choose to pay the price for achieving it.
For example, right now I could take off all my clothes, go snatch food from a store, beat up some
guy, have sex with some girl in public, defecate in the street, and go build myself a nice little
nest of leaves to sleep in. I really could. But of course I won't -- because I like being a member
of society and don't feel like putting on a straight jacket and/or running wild through the woods
like an animal. We choose to be members of society and have to balance our freedoms to remain a
part of it.
But the essence of what you say is true since most of us aren't planning on dropping out of
society............ (yet) |
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04 Aug 2008 12:12
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