Gandhi reminds us that “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
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Freedom is all of the three things below and more:
* being free from control
* being free to be me (as an individual and as a business)
* being free to learn, share and contribute.
If you do not have all these three you are not truly free.
Thanks for your reply, Rolf!
The “Control” you mention is often a contentious issue. I agree, but I don’t see it as quite the same as “no rules”. To operate in a society, there are certain restrictions on what you can do. Generally, I’d say my freedoms are bound by things encroaching on the same freedoms of others. That’s where I believe the current US application of “freedom of speech” has gone wrong. A freedom that allows me to trample over the freedoms of others is not freedom, nor a society of equals. It’s one where the loudest or strongest gets their way – which is indeed the way it’s playing out. Unsurprisingly.