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I'm guessing most people just aren't that interested in getting involved in politics/economics at the local or national level.
I'm certainly not - I've got my own dreams to follow, and I'm happy to leave all that stuff to politicians and economists.
If Cubans are free to follow their dreams, then they're doing alright.
Your personal achievements are not the same as freedom, if people are to have freedom, they must have a say in the economic institutions that affect their lives.
Privatizing them and giving them authoritarian control is antithetical to freedom, just because you don’t want to practice those freedoms doesn’t mean others shouldn’t.
Your personal achievements are not the same as freedom, if people are to have freedom, they must have a say in the economic institutions that affect their lives.
Privatizing them and giving them authoritarian control is antithetical to freedom, just because you don’t want to practice those freedoms doesn’t mean others shouldn’t.
Of course they are -if you're not free to follow your dreams, then what is freedom for?
I can have a say in economic institutions, but it's not my scene -being forced to participate in how economic institutions are run, against my will, is the opposite of freedom and is a call to arms.
Of course they are -if you're not free to follow your dreams, then what is freedom for?
I can have a say in economic institutions, but it's not my scene -being forced to participate in how economic institutions are run, against my will, is the opposite of freedom and is a call to arms.
Dreams such as pursuing your own career path exist in any free society. If by dreams you mean owning more capital than you operate, then no, that’s not freedom. Taking away other people’s freedom for your own sake is theft, not freedom or success.
Dreams such as pursuing your own career path exist in any free society. If by dreams you mean owning more capital than you operate, then no, that’s not freedom. Taking away other people’s freedom for your own sake is theft, not freedom or success.
No one can even have their own definition of dreams/freedom in your society.
I don't have a career path - I just work for money, when I need to.
No one can even have their own definition of dreams/freedom in your society.
I don't have a career path.
Freedom is a foreign concept to those who have never been free. You can do whatever you want, but you can’t claim authority over things you don’t operate. That just gives you excess power to control others and limit their freedoms.
Freedom is a foreign concept to those who have never been free. You can do whatever you want, but you can’t claim authority over things you don’t operate. That just gives you excess power to control others and limit their freedoms.
You might want to explain that to the guy who's about to get executed, in post 172.
Sounds like the only type of freedom, is someone else's definition of freedom.
Last edited by Joe90; 09-24-2018 at 01:41 PM..
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