Saturday 29 December 2012

Freedom for the few

To believe that we are all absolutely free, one would have to be naive(justifiable in very young people, but not in the old) or else totally lacking in the capacity for observation and self-analysis. People who believe in this way consider anything bad that happens to someone else to be caused by their lack of moral fiber. When something bad happens to him, he thinks that is society setting out to obstruct him or that there has been a criminal violation of his rights. Perhaps so. But why is there never any criminal violation of anyone else's rights then? Is he the only one who can be violated?

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