What is real freedom and liberty?
This is an important issue in the world.
2006-07-08 16:25:24 · 9 answers · asked by devotionalservice 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Complete freedom is anarchy. Freedom with rules is what we aspire to.
2006-07-16 10:25:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a hard one.
Seems that freedom is an ongoing process - hard work. If we just lay around, pretty soon government starts to step over the line: emminent domain, wire-tapping, bank records, no smoking laws. Freedom gets smaller and smaller.
On the other hand, we have to protect ourselves from people of ill will. Not everyone is sweetness and light.
So freedom and liberty - terms of relativity. Keep in mind the Taliban.
2006-07-08 23:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by sammy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real freedom and liberty, well lets see, these things would be a state in which you could truely forge your own course in life,unobstructed by a system or caste system. A life in which you were truely only accountable for your own actions and yours alone. This would be a world where you would never have seat belt laws, lawsuits for spilling coffee on yourself, or censorship of TV and radio. Freedom and liberty are the names of the drugs they feed you to mask your slavery.
2006-07-08 23:48:46 · answer #3 · answered by secret_squirrel_2005 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom is financial independence. Liberties are those actions which free individuals may excercise without fear of the loss of financial assistance from the government.
If a particular government became malevolent, an individual on welfare could theoretically risk financial retribution as a result of dissenting against that government.
2006-07-09 00:09:52 · answer #4 · answered by rlw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we are free to walk the streets, but we are prisoners to our banks, jobs,credit card companies... There is no such thing as complete freedom. However, you can make your own plan in your head what freedom is, and live by it. I am sure that all the people in jails know what freedom means to them, and all the abused women in controlling relationships who can not leave have a freedom definition of their own.
2006-07-19 18:55:45 · answer #5 · answered by sheba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some think freedom is necessary for responsibility. Or that responsibility is what we need in order to have justice.
But freedom makes no sense metaphysically.
Liberty I understand. It's a formulation and extolling of our lack of boundaries in any given field. It's a political invention to encourage pride in one's country, an exorcism of repression.
2006-07-08 23:52:09 · answer #6 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is an Election in November that's why all that is going on is going on...
2006-07-08 23:30:34 · answer #7 · answered by ~Sinfully~Exquisite~Stalking~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know.
It seems to only apply to some and not others
.Down with tyranny
2006-07-18 01:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALIENABLE RIGHT
2006-07-08 23:27:45 · answer #9 · answered by Penney S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋