I believe that it's a useful concept in a vaacuum, but saying that the best society is the one with the fewest restrictions on it falls apart immediately when you apply it to reality, because different people have contradictory ends, and society isn't individualistic in nature.

Like I said, it's the absence of restrictions. You are "Free to do", means that you are not prevented from doing.

Freedom is not a material construct, though. It is a social construct. It is entirely dependent on your relations to other people, the level, (if any) of power they hold over you, and how they choose to wield it.

For example, if I pulled a gun on you, and made you give me your jacket, that would be a violation of your freedom, but if your jacket was merely blown away by the wind, that's not a violation of your freedom, that's just shit luck.

Coersion is not consent, though. If I offer you the options of servitude or death, you are technically free to choose death, but if you then choose servitude, no reasonable person would say that you had a meaningful choice in your enslavement.

You've been reading too much Sartre mate.

Arguing that no matter how unfree you may be, you're still free to change your own mental content. Who else but Sartre?

You're welcome, mate.

Combatting long held assumptions, and questioning ideology you didn't even realised you believed is always unsettling.

@Deleted User do you have a more specific source for that Lenin quote?

Never post a quote without verifying it.

How the fuck has this millionaire cunt not been banned, yet?

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Understood. Apologies for not understanding the banning policy. I'm new here.

I think I have messages missing.

@ego_sum_jeffum Would you please send screenshots of what you have?

Oh for fucks sake.