We over-complicate ideas. It irks me that we are not honest as well. What is freedom? Well, there is nothing called freedom. Sorry for the bad news. Freedom in its absolute definition is that there are no rules, no one to tell a man what to do? The first man in the jungles had freedom. He is free to kill an animal for food, down a tree for shelter and utter whatever he thinks. He is free in the most accurate sense of freedom. What we mean freedom is acceptance of the laws or some arbitrary construct of a country and/or situation. That is about as much freedom we can define. Now that is not freedom to be exact. We gave up freedom for a certain order to prevail and to enable us, live and not murder. We crave for order thinking that it is freedom. It is most definitely good. It improves our standard of life in accordance with times. We sacrifice some freedom as an opportunity-cost which guarantees peaceful times. Good, I say.
Freedom is a permission. Freedom is a trade-off.
Freedom of speech is murky in all democracies. It has to be the simplest amongst freedom types, however many they are. It is that we can utter anything. Of course, they are somewhat guided by the laws of democracies. As it turns out, we are deceitful. We took “getting offended” to a whole new gargantuan level of freedom of speech. We are much “liberal” that we do not entertain a counter point. Not even friendly squabble. A mere tiff here and there. A slight astray, poop is already towards the fan, at mach speeds. Freedom of speech is not a reason to be offended for every sentence. No law, force or government on earth can prevent from being offended.
What a mess? There is always a trade-off. As soon as the modern society was born, there is only degree of freedom. Of course, with permission.
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