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Prinsexx -> RE: Freedom (3/21/2008 11:57:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: joy2u Freedom is overrated, in my opinion. More accurate, the concept of freedom is overrated, since i don't believe very many people are truly free. Pretty much everyone has to answer to someone and is accountable to someone else and must live under the constraints placed on them by someone else, be it their employer or the government or a spouse or the electorate. An interesting post, but not one I'd necessarily agree with. On the face of it, we appear to be restricted by government, family, religion, order etc. In fact, we choose these restraints for ourselves; they're not forced upon us. We are free to do as we please - providing we recognise that we are free. People are restrained/restricted/coerced into a lifestyle because they choose to be subservient (to a god, inner soul, government, job etc). In sum, having to answer to someone doesn't mean an individual is not free; it means they've chosen to answer to someone. This is an interesting argument. There are two forms of freedom as far as i am aware from political study: positive and negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom TO DO certain things: ie vote, earn a living , be sexual, aspire etc Negative freedom is freedom FROM: pain, imprisonment, discrimination etc in my relationship as slave i have both and i constantly express this in emotional forms which i know is difficult for anyone else to enter into discussion with as emotionality is after all only ever experiential. However i would say for me that the process, at this moment in time, for me, is that i have willingly entered into FREEDOM from FREEDOM if that makes sense, as without the constraints of my Master i do not feel free to experience sexual ity, to create, to in all actuality feel whole.
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