Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:29:18PM +0200, Rainer Trusch wrote:
answer two small questions:
What is freedom?
To be free from the control of anyone to do as it pleases without restricting the freedom of any fellow human being.
I give you another version:
To be free from the control of anyone to do as it pleases
And here a similar one, which you should know:
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
These are two versions with an essential difference. I used the software freedom example, because it is quite often used as equal to freedom. This makes it a bit tricky.
What is freedom for?
Why, to live a long and prosper life, what else?
It's an aspect :-), but you can have it even in a dictatorship, if you have the right position.
The question might sound stupid, but in a society freedom has meaning and a function and this is changing during times. Okay, it's geting a bit abstract, but that shouldn't be forgotten.
I don't really see what's your problem. Fredom is a quite simple and basic thing...
I don't agree. It is getting really complex, even from these few sentences. Off limits is a quite common form of freedom and everybody carrys his/her own version of freedom the head. You can easily damage another person with a misuse of free speech without limiting his/her freedom.
We have to take care about our relationship to these points. All our ideas about freedom, free speach, democracy derive from times when we didn't have all that. But this is more or less gone and keeping a strong relationship to an every day issue is always difficult. Moreover we are facing an increasing 'misuse' of our freedoms.
I don't want to stress that to much, but if the term freedom is so excessivly used and a basic idea, there should be some reflections on it, which I hardly ever saw.
Cheers
Rainer