Isn't true freedom anarchy? Isn't true equality communism? If you are truly free, aren't you free to be unequal i.e. discriminate based on whatever criteria, nepotism, etc? If everyone is truly equal doesn't that go against meritocracy?
2006-12-06 04:18:35 · 6 answers · asked by Brandon 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, Denard, if you had used the word "total" instead of "true", and if we can agree on what the term "equality" is to mean, I see no reason to disagree with you. "Total" is objective: concrete, measurable, easily definable; "true" is much more open to interpretation. As is "equality"..Is it sameness or worth or possibility or...?
Regardless, it would still seem a quandary how freedom and equality are perceived in our culture to be mutually desirable.
The answer, I think, is that we limit each of them by common consent, i.e. laws, to achieve a balance that we can live with. Actually, this balance is constantly being questioned and shifting slightly as the concepts are being battled out issue by issue, case by case.
2006-12-06 05:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by and_y_knot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. True freedom comes from true equality because when there is no one and nothing above or below you in terms of social status you are free to be and do as you like. But both true freedom and equality are states of mind, not things a government can enforce.
2006-12-06 12:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. Being in anarchy (modern Bagdad for example) isn't freedom at all; it's extremely oppressive. There is no civil or personal liberty at all. Some social structure enforcing political equality and some degree of individual opportunity is an absolute prerequisite for people to truly exercise personal and political freedom.
2006-12-06 07:59:14 · answer #3 · answered by silverside 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Denard,
Freedom and equality are not opposites, just different concepts. You can be free, but never equal depending on who is perceiving that judgement of equality. If money is the criteria - good luck. Some of your statement is good logic, but if one part is false, it causes the rest to fall apart.
2006-12-06 04:49:42 · answer #4 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get up in a church and tell them that the ten commandments could be torn down, that Jesus did that himself on the flow! Watch then as a results of fact the persecution starts off. get as much as a pastor and tell him that he isn't any longer the 'head' of the church..then watch the stones get thrown.. get as much as a congregation and positioned 2 apples in a basket for tithing...they are going to chortle at you, yet quite that's what tithing replaced into. a number of those issues have got here approximately, tell me this...does no longer this be seen persecution? Jesus spoke plenty against faith and relating to the dominion..the two are thoroughly distinctive.
2016-10-17 21:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What then is equal? To see a brother or sister in front or behind , in need or begrudged, what then is freedom to extend the hand of love. what then is, eye to eye. equally we see in stride. suffer no more or less, what then is life.
2006-12-06 04:32:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋