Well since you asked. Freedom to me means that people get to live, practise and teach the ideals they believe in providing that it does not harm themselves or others. Freedom can and should legitimately be restricted when there is proven evidence that the practise of it will be harmful especially to others but also to oneself.Szdfan wrote:I do understand how and why conservatives feel the way they do. I think that people generally have a right to their feelings. I also don’t agree with the conservative perspective.appleman2006 wrote:So do you understand why conservatives may feel that they have lost some of their freedoms? Also do you understand why a person's freedom that results in someone else being hurt, i.e. abortion rights, could be seen as dangerous?
What does “freedom” mean to you? Who gets to have freedom? Who in society decides which freedoms should matter and which freedoms should be repressed?
As you can see I am a long way from a libertarian. I understand that the argument often is in what defines harm to oneself. But even that argument is not nearly as complicated if we are honest about it and are willing to take an honest look at it. What baffles me is that the left is almost always on board with efforts to control danger to physical harm to people (exceptions to this are abortion and euthanasia) but when it comes to things that might affect the moral and spiritual state of people they scream in horror at the very thought of such controls.