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+1 for state of mind

if we look at it, there is no "complete freedom" in a finite and restricted world.

it's all various degrees of confinement and restriction. Even if you live in a relatively " free " jurisdiction, you can't have all the things you want and you can't avoid the things that you don't like. and then maybe you just get sick and die anyway.

The idea of freedom is important and the yearning towards it essential.

but let's not fool ourselves that it's something that we actually accomplish as a society.
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Joel Walbert 6d ago

If looking at freedom in the physical sense and nothing more, nobody is free. We all need permission to leave our repsective plantations (country).

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Hanshan 6d ago

and even if there was physical freedom of movement, there would be something else.

and like you pointed out, the restrictions imposed on us from outside are usually trivial compared to the restrictions that we self-impose without knowing it

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Joel Walbert 6d ago