Everyone says they want ‘freedom’, however very few can actually handle it.
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That is very much based on the definition of freedom. If you only look at it as opposite to regulations it doesn't show, what you are able to do in reality...
Take Somalia for example (the destination people like to send all the ancaps). There is effectively no state and no regulations, but people living there are poor so they can't do much. They are free, but can't do much.
Compare it to Norway, very rich and also quite regulated country. They are not that free, but they can afford almost everything.
Of course there are countries like North Korea where you are not allowed to do anything and you can't afford anything.
So I like to think about practical freedom as a rectangle where the two sides are "what you are allowed to do" and "what you can afford to do."
The bigger the surface of the rectangle the better. But yes, we are all individuals preferring different shapes and sizes of freedom.
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This is very thoughtful. I believe the founders of the US had exactly this duality in mind when forming our government.
The logic flowed something like this:
1. People are not good by nature.
2. Some of those people will not regulate their impulses.
3. This causes the violation of other people’s rights by the unregulated.
4. Some cooperation is required to defend the freedom of everyone else.
5. Government is evil.
6. Ergo, the least amount of government required to protect the rights of the average person is the least possible evil.
Then there is also a need to dissect the difference between freedom from restriction and freedom *of* opportunity. You could have a perfect government with absolute rights, but that doesn’t mean that the past and chance, etc provides you with many opportunities to do much with it.
It certainly takes both to create a prosperous nation.
I watch an interview with the founder of Tether and his freedom was from the burden of possessions, but not that of wealth. How do you define freedom? Frankly, I’m unsure for myself. I have notions, but not conclusions.
Good point, everyone can define this differently.
I watched a TV show about a prison where the inmates were locked in their cells for 22 hours a day, the Prison Governor wanted to do an experiment and allow a certain section of the prison their doors open all day and for them to move freely. They didn’t know what to do or how to handle this small amount of freedom.
This is interesting and highly subjective IMO. Freedom of thought, anonymity in expression, and freedoms to speak and assemble are important to me. Humans are highly adaptable admittedly, but what generally is the best fit for a human being to thrive? Tolerance is one thing, but in today’s world should we not have wide spread utopia? Why do we even have borders on this globe? Can anyone really explain that? Let economics decide who goes where, yeah?
I certainly cannot explain it, there’s smarter people out there than me.
I can only guess it was back in the early days of invading lands across the world.