WHY do people say "It's a free country" When It Blates Isn't!
2007-02-04 05:13:44 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Free as long as you are not British.
2007-02-04 05:17:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Dear Katie -
Freedom is a word that does not represent a physical object. So the definition is `loose'. Like for example the word `good' -and unlike the word tree. Suicide bombers think that it is good to kill innocent people. They obviously have a different understanding of the word good.
Freedom, the words, also allows the ability for ideas like `more free' as in less laws, or `less free' as in more government regulations. So to be free cannot be a singular state of being, but a state in flux. Therefore it can be said that you are more or less free right now.
All known civilisations had laws or rules by which they kept order. You could compare the level of freedom between each civilisation - but at the base line everyone is free with some restraints - natural restraints such as you cannot decide never to defecate again- to societal restraints -like enforced laws.
In the most hellish example of `non-freedom' a man named Victor Frankel ( Man's Search for Meaning) while in a Nazi concentration camp came up with his brilliant insights on logotherepy. The Nazi tried to take away every freedom but they could not suppress the freedom in the mans mind. Of course, just to be alive is the final freedom, which they took from so many.
Albert Camus said be neither victim nor executioner be -this holds true for both individuals or countries - to be in that balance alone is to be free.
Ultimately freedom is an arbitrary word, a person determineses how free they feel much like they determin how happy they are.
Reminds me of that song: ~Don't Worry, be happy.
2007-02-04 11:18:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well at the moment we are not controlled by another countries politics, religion, or lunacy - that is to say a non British.
I think the saying stems from the fact that Hitler never won the war as UK would have been controlled by Germany / Hitler had we been unfortunate to lose.
We also have freedom of speech so long as we follow certain guidelines - ie don't discriminate or be abusive any slight infringement usually causes trouble and restrictions.
Fresh air is still free as is smiling - Have a great week.
2007-02-04 05:29:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jewel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. In comparison to countries with either no/very little government like somalia and afghanistan, it would seem as though the us had less freedom because we have more laws. But out economic opportunities give us freedom that most in these failed states do not have. In comparison with totalitarian governments like North Korea, we have significantly more freedom in our daily lives, but we are still chained to the social contract that every democratic government has with it's people. Ultimately, the question of whether or not we are free is based on a lot more complicated factors than simply how much it costs to live in the U.S.
2016-05-24 04:08:40 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must mean free not country. If you have a understanding of country then we are cooking with gas. Freedom means a understanding that you should be able to do and say what you want as long as it does not interfere with someone Else's freedom. AKA you can not yell fire in a area where it would cause chaos when there is no fire.
2007-02-04 05:25:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a very good question. It shows someone using their brain. It brings up all sorts of worms among the plainly brainwashed and it is my proposal that the "Free" in Free here is a result of external conditioning. It is not free as such but we have been told and are being told that others are not free. So we think that we are free. Others are starving. Others are locked up without trial. Others do not obey UN resolutions. All this does not really mean that we do.
2007-02-04 09:15:24 · answer #6 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I've been asking that same question for a long time, america is less free than many countrys.
and for that person who wrote about having the freedom of disagreeing with the Goverment and writing about it........ let me tell you that latin-american countrys do it a lot more, spiced up with many satiric cartoons and songs that actually curse at the president and call him very nasty things, oh! and this songs play on the radio during day hours, they are popular.
2007-02-04 05:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by Marino 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because most people have been brainwashed by the propaganda put out by the crooks and conmen who really run the country, the drug dealers in the city of London, the so called politicians who are only in politics for how much money they can get out of it of and of course the church who need people to believe this is a free country so they can continue to spread their poisonous religious ideas.
2007-02-04 06:02:00 · answer #8 · answered by Stephen P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Its relatively free compared to many other parts of the world (I know, I'm in one of those other parts right now).
But (and its a big but) every single one of us has a duty to make sure that we not only maintain what freedoms we have, but to increase those freedoms for future generations (ie. our kids). There are many in power who would like democracy rolled back, with the only freedom left being the freedom to spend money.
Fight for your rights!
2007-02-04 05:27:38 · answer #9 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that any country is free apart from USA the land of the free.
2007-02-08 01:36:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean exactly?
Nobody is free in the world. Every country has its own laws that don't do you free at all.
it's not England only.
2007-02-04 05:29:31 · answer #11 · answered by Tudor_ 22 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋