What does “FREEDOM” mean to you?  And do you believe it has disadvantages or limitations?
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Good question (all of them).\n\nI don't believe that anyone is truly "free".  We all conform to something or other. Marketplace, social etiquette's, beliefs of religion, and all the biases we have subconsciously accepted from a life time of media and other external influences like friends and family.\n\nI live in Canada and we have recently made same sex marriages legal.  It has caused a lot of controversy within the country.  Many take a moral or religious approach to the subject, but I see it as a social development towards our continued struggle to live in a free nation.\n\nWill we as humans ever "be free"?  I doubt it, but I think that the goal of all people in all societies ought to be to continue to re-evaluate and to strive to continue to develop what it means to have freedom in our countries.\n\nFreedom (what ever it is exactly) ought to be for all people regardless of sex, heritage, colour, religious belief, and now in Canada and 2 other countries in the world, sexual orientation.\n\nFreedom to the individual is whatever they were brought up believing freedom is. "Terrorists most likely believe that the West hates what they consider to be freedom."  It's all a matter of perception.
374806
Depends on which side you are: if you are a slave to something (e.g.addiction) then it is "from".\nIf you are free, then you have freedom "for": anything, even for getting addicted :)
46968
It's very close.  I mean, by definition people in a society are not 'free'.  They all agree through social contracts and constructs to limit their behavior to the de facto 'rules'.  People can't be allowed to go running around doing just whatever they want.
864623
Basically, the story of freedom is still an unfinished story, it isn't a single event, but a series of steps taken and yet to be taken to continue to try and acheive this ideal.  You could even make an arguement that we have regressed at times and may even be doing so now...
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I felt free when I registered to vote. I felt free when I volunteered too work for the election of a local political candidate. I feel free when I get into lively discussions about religion, politics, history, etc with friends and family who have a different mind set (Sometimes radically different.) I felt free when I, free of any mental reservation, signed my contract with the Army and agreed to accept a commission as an officer in the Army upon graduation from college. I felt free the day my dad started his own business (just by himself in a cluttered 10 x 10 workspace with a computer and some filing cabinets.) I felt free when I saw his company grow from that to a thriving business with an office downtown, 4 employees and 2 company vehicles. \n\nI'm quite proud to say that political, religious, social and economic freedom are things that I have the priviledge of seeing on a regular basis.
36566
Your country can only be free if there are certain rules to ensure your freedom. If everyone were completely free from rules, we would be spending most of our time guarding our property.
36843
Freedom in the USA is (in my opinion) a joke.  We go into other countries to give them what we have but i dont think we really have it to begin with.  Blacks still get dicrimminated against. So do gays and people from the middle east.  It took us how long to give women and blacks the rights that they have?  I sit here in Europe (on vaycay) and I see such a huge difference in freedoms.  Its astonishing really.  In my eyes if you are rich you got all the freedom you want... if you fall short your screwed.  I come from a middle class family.  We had to work to get what we wanted, we arent rich.  and i dont feel we got the same freedoms and treatments that money would normally give others.  Just my opinion.
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Apathy and ignorance are killers of freedom.  Fear is the lack of knowledge of the things around you.  You will never be secure behind walls you are just a prisoner of your own making.  It is important to keep the spirit alive and if necessary yes, a revolution.\n\nWe should not loose our rights through fear.
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The obvious example is not to scream "FIRE" in a crowded theater. I can say anything I want to, but will the outcome injure people?  Freedom is restraint, words and deeds. Limitations on my freedom come from within me, that's called restraint.  You can say almost anything to me and I won't get offended, others are not the same. I hope this makes sense.
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Excuse me, but you are confusing "Freedom" with "Being Free to do what you want".... they are not the same thing. \n\nFreedom in this case is the concept of political freedom  closely allied with the concepts of civil liberties and human rights, and the fundamental idea of positive and negative freedom corresponds with the concept of negative and positive rights. Most democratic societies are characterised by various freedoms which are afforded the legal protection of the state.\n\nYou have these Freedoms in the USA and not all countries allow the same Freedoms:\n\nFreedom of assembly \nFreedom of association \nFreedom from government sanctioned discrimination \nFreedom of education (to get a basic education)\nFreedom of enterprise \nFreedom of movement (or travel) \nFreedom of the press \nFreedom of religion (or belief) \nFreedom of speech \nFreedom of thought (or conscience) \n\nI don't see being a drug using nudist listed above....sorry.
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If that is slavery, what is freedom to you? Freedom to not persue anything? Is that what you call freedom?\n\nThe American dream might be elusive, but to those who strive to get it, usually does, or else the concept might have died long ago.\n\nYes, I was indebt, too. But I had the FREEDOM to pay it off. I never displaced any of my responsibility to anyone else, keeping in mind the freedom to do and rise at a greater height than what I could reach, so as NOT to blame a "system" to my short comings.\n\nYou are only a slave if you view yourself as such. But if see yourself as a free man realizing his potential and applying his unbound liberty to rise among the rest, then you are trully a free man.\n\nBut yet, some are too lazy to do something at this freedom. Instead, succumbs to blame, mostly displacing it other than themselves. They are slaves... Slaves to themselves and their weakness, never realizing their potential.
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I don't see how it is giving us freedom either. But I do respectfully disagree with your statement that we are just as free today as we were before. Our freedoms have been greatly hampered since 9-11, and the powers that be are steadily trying to chip away further at our freedoms. IMHO...
1160250
there freedom includes:  freedom to wiretap anybody, freedom to dictate your religious values, and of course freedom to attack anybody whose idealogy is different than their own!!!!
962136
lol that would negate the definition of the word. To will something is to make an active choice. If you're choosing, you're not a slave. Slaves have choices made for them. I believe that humans are free to choose - it's just that they are too ready to give up that freedom. And as Henry Ford said, "whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're usually right"
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Liberty is the essential heart of freedom.  Liberty means being able to choose one's own actions, without intrusion by government.  Every law that restricts your movement, your actions or your words is one that restricts your liberty.\n\nPrivacy is the notion that the government will not intrude upon actions that you intend to be private.  For instance, intercepting someones mail violates their privacy, as it is expected that only the recipient of the mail will read it.\n\nEvery infringement upon privacy can therefore potentially result in a infringement of liberty.  For example, a wiretap could lead to an arrest.\n\nPeople have a right to privacy, that is, they have a right to expect that the government will do as little as necessary to intrude upon their rights.  This right is expressly provided for in the bill of rights.  These rules govern due process.  This is why the police must obtain a warrant to do a search.
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Absolutely not, no one can really.  Think about it, you can have either freedom or security but not both.  any amount of restriction to provide security must infringe on freedom.  \n\nBesides, freedom is an illusion anyway.  its a buzzword thrown around by people who dont know what it means.  if we really had freedom here we would pay taxes if we wanted to, not because we have to.  we dont have the freedom of not supporting our governments policies financialy therefore we arent free.  abortion, personal use of illegal substances, open border migration, there are a host of examples were we have no freedom.  personnaly, i feel like we have given up many freedoms since 9/11 with the patriot act and illegal wire tapping and we have no more security to go with it.  we  lose on both counts and the government wins by adding more power and control to their arsenal.
819596
What a brilliant topic!  You coulld write heaps on this.  Three items I'd be prepared to give up? Let's see, I object to too much government interference in my life, but acknowledge the need for a central organising power.  So, perhaps look at what changes have happened, especially since 9/11, to personal freedoms. And what people have seemed to accept, more or less willingly, in order to ensure safety.  It's much easier to list three items you WOULDN"T give up.  I wouldn't give up right to free speech, for example.  It's too important.