It’s so disheartening that I encounter so many people who publicly, proudly announce that they intentionally hold back the autonomy of the person they claim to care about the most in life.
When you truly love someone, you want freedom for them.
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What do you mean?
I am thinking here of those who wish to "dominate" their spouse, or those who seek out a "submissive" or "obedient" spouse.
You mean those that wish to live in a biblical relationship?
A relationship with their spouse and with god?
Perhaps your “dominant” point is valid, but your other two are demonic.
Ahh, are you Christian?
So the logic here is that not being submissive and obedient is inherently demonic? And is that for everyone or just women?
Control is a human disease.
Humans have some really ugly, violent instincts. We also have some really wonderful, loving instincts. And we get to decide which ones we lean into.
I'm pretty libertarian, but I think freedom is sometimes overly fetishized. Freedom to do what? Sometimes I think libertarianism can devolve into libertinism very easily if there isn't a backing ethic to prevent it.
Libertarianism is just a set of values. The primary one being that the default is freedom. The default is that no one gets to tell another person how to live.
How can freedom be fetishized? What might be an example?
One thing that I see happening is a devaluing of community. People glamorizing living alone in some bunker somewhere. That isn't healthy. Humans are social creatures, we need community.
