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Its all coming together now. Why make drugs legal? Why make abortion legal? Why have open borders? In a word, freedom.

Freedom to choose, freedom to fail, freedom to travel.

The only thing that can steal freedom is violence.

That should be the focus of government, protecting people from violence and maximizing freedom.

Government has no business giving people free stuff because it requires violence from the government to steal it from someone and redistribute it. Violence is the opposite of freedom. A violent government cannot protect freedom, it erodes it.

Focus 6 Aug 3
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Freedom in the altruistic sense should be the ability to do what one ought, not to do whatever the hell what one likes. The latter is a recipe for anarchy.

By the way @Focus, you're getting it, but it's far worse than that.

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All governments control societal violence, increasing or decreasing it, by claiming a monopoly on violence. Generally, they claim to decrease violence and criminality but they may wish to claim relevance and importance by clandestinely increasing it. That's when it's time to change governments.

Freedom applies to individuals. America's founding fathers enumerated what they thought were the basic inalienable human rights of all individuals and attached that Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

If one individual tramples on the rights of another individual then your government has the ability to, once a conviction is determined, remove that individual's rights.

Children have the same rights as all individuals that are citizens but they don't have freedom. They need to learn how to use a freedom. Freedom involves the ability to make correct choices. Correct choices are ones that are pro-survival. Children need to learn things like stoves can be hot. Do not run out into the streets. Once they have demonstrated they can make correct choices they earn their freedom. The government considers them to know what they are doing when they are eighteen for most things, 21 for some things. They should by this time be pretty much have the freedom of running their own lives and be aware of their rights. Today, I am not sure how well they know their rights.

Freedom involves responsibility. When one has freedom to make choices in all things as regards his life he must realize that others have those same rights and respect them. It's a mutually beneficial and societal agreement.

In making our free choices we must factor in the consequences of our choices, not only to ourselves but in relation to other individuals and society. That's what freedom is. If we make choices that hurt others or even ourselves too often then it is likely someone else will start making our choices for us.

You yourself can invite your freedom to be stolen from you if you do not make correct choices. If you insist your choices are correct it will be proven when you live past them. If others insist you are making incorrect choices that will be revealed in the harm or good that comes from them.

In any case, freedom is a simple concept that basically involves your ability to make choices in your actions that improve your life and the things and people affected by your choices. Remember we all make mistakes. We just have to make correct choices a majority of the time.

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