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by marginalia_nu 1678 days ago
If we are to investigate whether freedom is desirable, don't we owe it to ourselves to find out what freedom is first, find out if we are free, if we even can be free? Otherwise we can debate in circles about different meanings of the word and ultimately get nowhere.

I don't think the poetic appeal of the definition is useful if the definition itself lends itself to contradictions.