In my recent explosion of personal reductionist thought, I am beginning to analyze my political opinions and their causes. I came to the conclusion that I want as much freedom as possible in a society (before I go any further, I will define freedom here as the leeway to do what you want in various ways). If I would take away any freedoms, I would take away freedoms for the few to preserve the freedoms of the many (for me, an example is economics). While expecting some to disagree with me on the last part, I assumed that the general consensus would be that the more freedom there is, the better. Analyzing prevalent opinions in the area proved otherwise.
What do you think? Is more freedom always a good thing? Why or why not?
Ultimately, I'd like for us to be able to reduce differences in our opinions down to the most basic opinions in belief. When you answer the above questions, really think about what you believe.
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Well I think that freedom means that you have the right to freely think. Not act. If I were to go out and do drugs and get caught. I could say it's a free country and it's my body and you can't touch me. So I think that sometimes it can go to far. Some people think that they have a right to a house, a car, flat screen t.v. In reality you have to work for those things. It's not just a right to say I think that I should be aloud to have that. I just don't think that's right.
Sure the right to act freely is freedom. It's even right there in the word: 'free'ly. I think, though, what you're trying to say is that you don't support freedom in that way. Think about this, though, if you could design a country, would you make drugs legal? And for what reasons?
Also, I think I agree with you on people having a 'right' to luxury. That's the economic freedoms I mentioned that I don't necessarily support.
One word: Libertarianism.
The [political] belief that men should be granted supreme free will. In other words, less laws in order to preserve freedom (and decrease crime rate).
I don't necessarily agree with it. I believe that in a libertarian society, some people will simply take advantage of the freedom and use it to forcefully take away the freedom of others.
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