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What do you mean by freedom?
I read much of the right to freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of speech but see little to show an understanding of these freedoms. It is well past time that men and women considered these freedoms and removed their defining from the hands of the politically correct and the ‘legal technicocrats’. Technically legal is not necessarily morally right. Give them back the meaning that our forefathers gave them.
It is interesting to note that Marvin’s response, although both relevant and interesting, tends to limit the freedoms mentioned to rights at a self level. Surely freedom belongs to the universe and as such bears the burden of an obligation. When exercising freedom we must never deprive another of their freedom. If I exercise my freedom of speech am I not obligated to ensure that my speech is proven truth not conjecture or that this conjecture is identified to the listener clearly as such? Freedom of expression bears the burden of protecting another from hurt by what is now referred to as misspeak? Should we define rights first and freedom last?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
A right isn't something you get to do. A right is something others can't do to you. It's not that you have the right to speak so much as it is you have the right not to be silenced. The difference is that while nobody may deprive you of the soapbox, radio transmitter, or website through which you communicate at the same time nobody is under any obligation to provide you with those tools.
The modern confusion arrives from the misuse of the word right to mean privilege. It's a child like sense of entitlement born of having the good fortune to live in a time and place so wealthy and run by such a compliant political system that one chooses to do nothing for their own well being, the wealth of others will be looted and brought to their door (actually their mailbox in the form of a check)
- 1 decade ago
freedom is being able to say and think what you want without being hated on by others. for example, a muslim is not free in america because he will get hated on or even beat up. blacks have suffered for centuries.
- 1 decade ago
Conservatism (classical liberalism of our Founding Fathers).
Source(s): The 5000 Year Leap