Is their freedom yours to give?
2006-08-12 03:49:13 · 13 answers · asked by CC...x 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Why so sad hajgora7? Your answer is the truth that I choose to live by. I hope others read it and understand...
2006-08-12 04:13:54 · update #1
I'm so glad that pilgram92003, Arzy and Mooch chose to answer too.
Thankyou for sharing.
I agree wholeheartedly.
2006-08-12 06:06:23 · update #2
Love is not about possession. True love works both ways. Freedom of others is never ours to give. However it is ourselves that needs to be freed.
2006-08-12 07:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree with pilgram92003,that the phrase is merely a metaphor but in my own opinion, If I love someone and yet that someone is not happy in the current situation or with what I can offer to him them yes it is obligated for us to let them go to find a better Life with whom ever they choose because to hold on to a "dead" relationship is to create more torment and resentment towards one another. Besides their freedom was never ours to keep in the first place despite the existence of Love in that relationship.
2006-08-12 12:20:53 · answer #2 · answered by Arzy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a metaphor. The freedom you give is the freedom to let the person be who they are and to accept that. It's the difference between attachment and dis- attachment , attachment you are trying to make the person be who you want them to be,trying to make them your own. Dis-attachment is giving them their freedom as they should do the same for you. It's the basis for a healthy relationship
2006-08-12 11:46:11 · answer #3 · answered by pilgram92003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw that in the scary movie "Kiss the Girls." The answer in that one was NO. The victims of that serial kidnapper only got their freedom after one of them escaped and led the police back to the improvised dungeon.
2006-08-12 10:58:53 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your perspective, you can set them free; however, from their perspective, it would be up to them to see that freedom. So the answer to your first question is "yes," but the answer to the second one is "no." Each of us can provide others the opportunity of freedom, but it is up to that person to actually obtain it.
2006-08-12 10:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by Mike S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can encourage them to seek their own freedom. By setting them free, what is meant is that you are releasing them from any obligation to you. You are letting them know that you are not exercising any claims to them, in fact you are dissolving and declaring moot any claims you have on that person.
Then it is up to that person to use his or her freedom according to his conscience. He or she may declare love for you, and desire to stay with you, if you will accept.
2006-08-12 10:57:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a cliched line out of a pop song that is sung by a singer who has no clue what love is (like most pop singers)
2006-08-12 10:54:53 · answer #7 · answered by TheMetallian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have thought that if we truly loved somebody we wouldn't make them captives in the first place.
Is love really about denying others their freedom?
2006-08-12 12:38:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. That catchy verse about "If you love someone, set them free, if they return..." etc etc is just a cutsy verse made up by someone whose supposed love left them, it was a way to cope not some law
2006-08-12 10:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by Iamstitch2U 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. Strongly yes. If you really love a person, all you desire for him is happiness....If you do not want to free him, then you're being selfish....contradicting the fact that love must not be selfish....If you do free him, then it is love that you truthfully gave.
2006-08-12 10:53:47 · answer #10 · answered by edelweiss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋