Unfortunately, the paradox of liberty that to be free you need to also give freedom to people you don't like who will do things you don't like.
In spite of that, liberty is still an ideal worth pursuing. Perhaps not the only ideal, but definitely one of the most important.
In spite of that, liberty is still an ideal worth pursuing. Perhaps not the only ideal, but definitely one of the most important.
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I don't think the challenge to liberty is the ones who think things you don't like. It's the ones who are indifferent to whether they have liberty or not.
A lot of authoritarians don't think they're authoritarians because they only want to limit people or things they don't like.
Yeah, i don’t think my point contradicts yours, it is more complimentary.
Yes to both.
Those authoritarians need a complacent population to let them.
“If… if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ……….. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn