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RE: EcoTrain QOTW: "Bearing in mind the health and state of our western culture and society today, do you think we have too much freedom?"

in #ecotrain6 years ago

After checking some of the entries from people answering to this question, I am kind of happy only 1 said we had too much freedom.

I agree that starting with the definition of freedom is important to avoid potentials misunderstandings.

Any person that lives in Western society and beliefs there is "too much" freedom is someone who has clearly zero experience with real lack of freedom, like it happens in other countries.

I understand that kids being kind of kidnapped for not attending the educational system, or the pig being owned should be considered a lack of freedom in some sense, but that doesn't mean Western society is not the place with more freedom in the world. It is not perfect, and in some aspects it has been degenerating itself (mainly due to governments expanding their power) but if you compare western society with other places, it is easy to come to the conclusion that there is more freedom in the west.

I think people that belief there is too much freedom are the ones supporting government increasing their power, and slowly but surely creating monsters that we will have to dealt with in the not so distant future, and in some cases, even right now in the present...

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I actually kind of spaced the western world part when I recorded my video, so I was speaking on a global level rather just referring to the Vatican's British-American Empire.

While there certainly are many varieties of tyranny, and the "west" (west of what exactly? West of where I grew up is an ocean, then Japan haha) is the most sneaky with theirs. In terms of simply the number of "laws" that you can be extorted/kidnapped/killed for violating, the US is the least free place on the planet.

My overstanding is that as more humans choose to live free (responsible), there will organically be less and less external violations of freedom.