I don’t know what freedom is.
You don’t either, don’t kid yourself. We’re talking about ultimate platonic
freedom. Total uninhibited actions. We have never seen freedom and I’ll bet we
will never see freedom. Freedom is one of those concepts we love to talk about
and throw around in conversation like we know what it is, kinda like
objectivity.
My
question is how can we possibly be free when there is so much going on around
us totally out of our control? Freedom stops precisely where circumstance
begins, and we can’t escape circumstance. A man may want to run along the
shoreline of a beach but that’s never happening if he has no legs. A president
may want to run for a third term but the 22nd Amendment forbids it.
A 15-year-old girl may be in love with a 35-year-old man but her lover would
face rape charges at the end of the day. Freedom of action will always be
checked by the conditions that a person finds themselves in.
