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by joe_the_user
3595 days ago
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People tend to miscomprehend freedom as an act that is performed according to our will without any form of constraint or predisposition. The problem I have with statements like that is that such statements tend not to provide an alternative meaning for freedom that most people would accept. It seems better to say that most people comprehend freedom in a fashion that's some combination of incoherent, self-contradictory and trivial. IE, it's better to say people comprehend freedom as you say but such a comprehension doesn't make sense if you look at it logically. One thing you might say is that the concept of free and unfree choice makes sense in informal human concept of control and blame - those who freely choose things we don't like get blamed for it, saying people should be free is saying their behavior should be regulated by informal, unconscious interactions rather than formal, rules-based systems. |
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