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Quote by: lsbskins1  This is why I consider philosopical musing on anything to be important for informing our opinions and good for exercising our brains, but usless when it comes to practical application. "Freedom" can be nothing more than a nebulous debating point when separated from real world complications. Freedom can never be absolutely defined. In the end, when we get down to the business of trying to secure it, we bump up against those varired definitions. The only answer that moves us towards practical application is some form of concensus, and that means some people will have to deal with what they consider imperfect freedom in order to have any. The alternative is inaction, which means no freedom. |
Agreed... which is why I gave my response.... the core essence of what all we understand or think freedom is, comes from nature and our natural instincts..... with our intelligence we attempt to build a foundation of more complex forms of freedom, freedom of labour towards different kinds of everyday work....
We make washer machines, cars, airplanes, TVs, the Internet, etc.... to make our lives easier, but at the same time, we also make our lives more difficult in other aspects, since we begin to rely on those new technologies that make us free from one thing, we begin to become entrapped by them due to relying on them more.......
In nature, it's still similar.... you have the freedom of all that, however you are not free from the concept of survival.... you always give up one freedom for another.... prefference I suppose, which would explain why many other countries around the world who use other forms of Government besides Democracy are still happy with their lives..... sure they may not have some freedoms we have, but we don't have some freedoms they have, and so on.
This is also why some countries give great resistance when a totally new form of government and way of life is thrown on them.