Self-Mentoring X ... Absolute freedom does not exist
Oh dear, I’m already at ten of these “drops of wisdom” (take with a train load of salt). And with this one, I’m about to do another kick into a hornet’s nest. Why? I dunno, probably because I’m a fan of weird kind of self-flagellation (don’t take this out of context >:3). But this one’s probably going to be short because the idea is rather quick to grasp.
Absolute freedom is impossible. Because for freedom to be truly absolute, you must allow for someone else’s freedom to be taken away.
I sure everyone is already tired of hearing the self-proclaimed “freedom absolutists” screech about how they’re being oppressed for theit behaviour, conveniently leaving out the fact that they’re so shit that in real life they’d probably get punched in the face if laws weren’t protecting them and everyone else from doing so. But let’s entertain the thought of absolute freedom for a while. Let’s imagine a world where there’s true freedom. A world where everyone can do whatever they want, say whatever they want.
Want to call someone a nasty slur? You can. Can you get a kick in the head for that? You can. Was the freedom limited in any way? No, it wasn’t. But what about stealing something? Can you do it in this world? Yes, you can. Can I stop you and prevent you from doing that? Ah ah ah, absolute freedom.
Wait … How is that freedom if I’m not free to stop you?
See the paradox? To reach the absolute freedom, a limitation was imposed. One can steal but the other isn’t free to stop them. Now imagine escalating the situation and the “thief” gets seriously injured or even killed. Suddenly their freedom got limited or in the fatal case completely taken away. Funny how our “absolute freedom” suddenly creates an environment of fear and oppression. We have a world in which we can do absolutely anything, except we can’t because someone can just remove us from existence.
Now, let’s narrow it down to a more palpable case. Well, palpable as a metaphor because just thinking about the situation makes me want to barf. Twitter, the “free speech sanctuary”; the place so abrasive it leaves scratches on your car just by thinking about it. The place so toxic that you’d rather spend a year in a radioactive waste dump that a minute there. But every imbecile “free-speaker” hails it as the “one truly free place”.
Uh huh, you think it’s free? Try to criticise any simple thing. Or even more daring, try to even mildly disagree with the “leadership” there. Suddenly your freedoms will be deleted quicker than Stalin could replace his people during the Great Purge. The “Boot of Absolute Freedom” will crush every single bone in your body harder than a meat grinder makes the meatloaf mix. Your “absolute freedom” will be … wait, no. I’ll stop it here because the thought I have in my mind here is hitting far too hard.
So if someone calls for absolute freedom, ask them: “Would you mind if I exercise the absolute freedom and take yours? Because you just allowed me to do so.” Show them how absolutely free their existence is for taking and control. And that they can do nothing about it because that’d be an offence to your freedom.
R.R.A.