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If you're a human being there is no such thing as freedom. "Free" is the ability to do  anything and everything; only animals are free. Human beings possess the capacity to emotionally reason and so they are liberated. Liberty is the abiltiy to make reasoned decisons for yourself; it is a choice from among some just choices. A choice is not ever forced upon you; due to its very nature you freely choose for yourself - if your nation is a nation that, as one poster pointed out, has actual universal law that applies to all equally.


We do; we have refused to apply it justly and we have refuse to live it out. It is my personal belief that one of the very worst things to happen in this nation over the past few decades was to convince children that life was matter of fairness instead of justice and that free is the same as liberty.


I was sickened when I saw that battleship with the giant banner proclaiming "Operation Iraqi Freedom" as if you expect people to act like animals they will. The first guy I'm going to fault after the whole Congress? The guy who named it that instead of "Operation Iraqi Liberation".


Liberty enables you to defy authority and to defy any outside conditions forced upon you by the state that are not just. Free? You become a slave to any person you call an authority and the outside things own you.


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