When we come into this world, we have various resources at our disposal. Our freedom is in the actions we can take or things we can do with the resources at hand. This should align with our thinking and imagination. (Or, the other way around.) We need the ability to see possibilities with these limited resources and take the ones that make us the happiest. I think excessive limitations on one’s action tends to degrade such ability. Therefore, it is important to design a societal structure that will maximize personal freedom, only guards against the worst harms, and only as a last resort, through the limitation of freedom.
Category: Sociology
Freedom of speech
Speech is a means of communication. It is an open communication. Not all communication is a speech so freedom of speech is not the same as the freedom of communication. It is within one’s right to make any kind of speech. However, just as any other kind of actions, one should be responsible for its consequences. Also just like any other kind of actions, the freedom can be limited only when any of its consequences are commonly agreed to be certain and damaging that the damage is not within one’s privileges to cast.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
― James Madison