Freedom Has A Bill, And Nobody Wants To Pay It
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Tim Akano
Rousseau wrote that man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. He was only half right. Biology corrects philosophy before philosophy gets the chance: a newborn cannot feed himself, protect himself, walk, speak, or regulate his own temperature. He enters the world owing everything to somebody else. He does not begin life self-made. Freedom comes later — and when it comes, it comes with a bill. That bill is responsibility. In a word: freedom is not free.Freedom is not the absen
Rousseau wrote that man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. He was only half right. Biology corrects philosophy before philosophy gets the chance: a newborn cannot feed himself, protect himself, walk, speak, or regulate his own temperature. He enters the world owing everything to somebody else. He does not begin life self-made. Freedom comes later — and when it comes, it comes with a bill. That bill is responsibility. In a word: freedom is not free.Freedom is not the absen
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