2007-12-28 13:31:11 · 7 answers · asked by Outdoors Kid 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Let's take our "Freedom" of Speech. If it's free we can go up to the President and say "I'm gonna kill you."
also, if we get a "free offer" from someone, we still do have to do something in order to get it. Like, getting a "free" Nintendo Wii. It gets delivered to your door and you have to take time outta your life to install it. Is that Free?
2007-12-29 00:58:16 · update #1
The only thing which is free is that which you can acquire directly from nature, such as picking a flower. But even then it is not entirely free. A certain amount of effort is required on your part to acquire it.
One of the things in life which is least free is freedom itself. Even if we hold that freedom is a natural right of man, the political system must allow for it.
Anyone who has it should feel fortunate.
2008-01-05 12:12:10 · answer #1 · answered by M O R P H E U S 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Your question is an unusual one; not something that Google can answer.
By "freedom," I assume that you mean the right to live life as you wish with no constraints other than those you choose. That sort of freedom has always had a price, if human history has any voice in the matter.
Is anything in life free? I'd say there is one thing. We have the gift of agency. That means that we can choose between right and wrong. In any situation, there is a course of action available, whether we know the best one or not. Choice: 100% percent off, for all time.
2007-12-28 14:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a philosophical question all right. But I would say that nothing in life is really free. If you could ask them, do you think guys like Jefferson and Revere and Washington would say Freedom is free? What about Nelson Mandela? He paid for his Freedom by serving 27 years in political prison.
Get the picture?
When you apply for public assistance? Free money? No way. You pay for that money with the time you put in filling out the application, and with the invasion of privacy that you have to puy up with to get the money. And the general public pays for it through their taxes. Got it? The list goes on and on.
2007-12-28 13:54:01 · answer #3 · answered by bodavisP 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To me this question asks weather or not we actually have free will. We are free of course to choose at any moment what we wish to do but those decisions are highly influenced by many variables. In theory one should be able to start each day making choices to directly effect each moment of our reality, but if you have a job and have bills to pay than what you may actually choose as your desired reality is sidetracked by what most consider a necessity of life.
Certainly it could be agreed upon that someone in the United States is going to have a drastically different opinion on what they are free to choose than, let's say, someone from the jungles of Peru. So you really have to ask yourself what you think freedom is in the first place?
2007-12-28 15:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by emceebenny2b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is free in life. You have to earn everything; whether it's having sex or learning...you always have to earn it or work for it.
Freedom is really free! Choices are free, good or bad...
Freedom is free!
2007-12-28 14:01:47 · answer #5 · answered by kayneriend 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." You have to pay insurance, pay to register your vehicle, pay property taxes, pay sales tax, pay to drive.
"Man is condemned to be free..." You make the choices in your life and take the responsibility for them. You can't blame anyone else.
2007-12-28 14:59:47 · answer #6 · answered by rolfsmitherines 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its free but you still must pay the taxes
2007-12-28 14:30:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋