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RE: Perceiving disobedience to authority

in Deep Dives6 years ago

Freedom is a double-edged sword. The people on the train also have rights but you are so full of your personal liberty you don't give a damn about anyone else's.

If I had a shop and I wanted anyone entering to wear a mask, or just as a more general example, purple ear-muffs, then that is also my liberty to stop people entering who weren't wearing purple ear-muffs. Freedom and personal sovereignty is great, but on a planet populated with 7 billion people, we need to be interdependent and take others personal freedoms into consideration too. Thats what it means to live in society. Of course, if people don't want to enjoy the available liberties and knowledge passed down through thousands of years of evolution, then I'd suggest finding a cave and trying to invent things for themselves instead of just parasitically living off other peoples hard work and experience.

No one on earth is 'free' but a much more free existence is available and attainable to the individual but it must come with some thought to other souls and the freedom seeker must take some personal responsibility too.