01-24-2015, 11:57 PM
Crazy talk...No one living in a society is 'free'.
Our definition of freedom varies throughout the world depending on our enculturation. And you mention how you have travelled to other cultures and compared American (North American) lifestyle positively with others. The definition of that conclusion is ethnocentrism.
Culture limits freedoms, and it has to be for a society of people to live in each other's pockets without anarchy. "Come over here Mr Spooner and put your hands on the bonnet real quick!" "But Officer, I just made a commercial sponsorship video for Brownells and Smith & Wesson about how I am free."
If you want to be 'free' then you need to live by yourself in a place where others do not seek to limit your behaviour and thought. Swapping the military for a wife taught me that!
I am here for technical discussion, not political rhetoric.
Cringeworthy.
Our definition of freedom varies throughout the world depending on our enculturation. And you mention how you have travelled to other cultures and compared American (North American) lifestyle positively with others. The definition of that conclusion is ethnocentrism.
Culture limits freedoms, and it has to be for a society of people to live in each other's pockets without anarchy. "Come over here Mr Spooner and put your hands on the bonnet real quick!" "But Officer, I just made a commercial sponsorship video for Brownells and Smith & Wesson about how I am free."
If you want to be 'free' then you need to live by yourself in a place where others do not seek to limit your behaviour and thought. Swapping the military for a wife taught me that!
I am here for technical discussion, not political rhetoric.
Cringeworthy.