What is freedom?

[Victor]

Freedom is not in doing what you want to do
but in wanting what you can do.

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

I agree with this. No sense talking about what you are free to do
if it is impossible to do it. He doesn't say you shouldn't try sometimes.

 

[Aunt Bea]

For me, freedom is being independent and autonomous.

 

[RadishRose]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom

 

[Wren]

Freedom to me is not having to answer to, or rely on anybody

 

[Warrigal]

Freedom is an ideal we aspire to and are prepared to defend.

 

[Lara]

For me, freedom is saying and doing what you want

as long as it is good, true, noble, pure, and right,

and doesn't step on someone else's freedom.

("good, true, noble, pure, and right" comes from Philippians 4:8)

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[hearlady]

For me, freedom is saying and doing what you want

as long as it is good, true, noble, pure, and right,

and doesn't step on someone else's freedom.

("good, true, noble, pure, and right" comes from Philippians 4:8)

Lara, I think freedom means doing and saying what you want even if it's not true, noble, pure, or right. With freedom comes the good, the bad, and the ugly. I do thinks those things win out though in a noble and true society.

 

[Gary O']

the power to choose

 

[Lara]

Lara, I think freedom means doing and saying what you want even if it's not true, noble, pure, or right. With freedom comes the good, the bad, and the ugly. I do thinks those things win out though in a noble and true society.

Freedom is sometimes abused in a variety of ways...dare I say often.

It's impossible to have freedom without discipline and responsibility. We all have the gift of freedom from those who have fought for it but some, abuse their freedom.

 

[Sunny]

To me, one guy's freedom ends where the other guy's foot begins.

 

[Lara]

Yes, in fact a similar quote goes way back to 1882 when John B. Finch said,

"Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins."

 

[Olivia]

Knowing when to hold 'em and knowing when to fold 'em.