I'd say we're screwed for at least the next 100 years.
I'd say we're screwed for at least the next 100 years.
Define free?
Kid running after kipchoge wrote:
Define free?
The presence of a strong government that protects individual liberty instead of violating it.
The Millennium. See Revelation 8-20
yep222 wrote:
Kid running after kipchoge wrote:Define free?
The presence of a strong government that protects individual liberty instead of violating it.
From your naive answer, I see that you don't know what freedom is. A free society means that no individual uses power- all is devoid of any power willingly. If you have a government, that means that you have people with power. So what you call freedom is exactly what you have now. The only way society can be devoid of power is that each individual willingly will disarm himself of any power. If someone else disarms you that means, he uses power. And you are disarmed unwillingly which means that the minute you will have the opportunity to get your power back you will do so. Read Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
Kid running after kipchoge wrote:
From your naive answer, I see that you don't know what freedom is. A free society means that no individual uses power- all is devoid of any power willingly. If you have a government, that means that you have people with power. So what you call freedom is exactly what you have now. The only way society can be devoid of power is that each individual willingly will disarm himself of any power. If someone else disarms you that means, he uses power. And you are disarmed unwillingly which means that the minute you will have the opportunity to get your power back you will do so. Read Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
You used the word "power" six times without either defining it or even implying any particular definition. You are engaged in the act of reasoning word to word without anchoring your concepts to anything in reality.
By power I mean the use of physical means against another creature against his will in order to get what you want. Forcing someone to do something. A threat of punishment is also power, because if you choose not to obey, the punishment is enforced on you by physical means against your will. Examples:
1. A stonger kid that gets by power or by threat of power what he wants from another kid.
2. Taking taxes
3. Putting people in prison.
4. Any sort of punishment.
5. Parents that force their kids to do things against their will.
What is the threshold that separates a "hobbyjogger" from a "sub-elite" runner?
BREAKING: Leonard Korir not going to Paris! 11 Universality athletes get in ahead of him!
Hicham El Guerrouj is back baby! Runs Community Mile in Oxford
Do "running influencers" harm the competitive nature of the sport?
Why's it cost every household $5000 in taxes just to run a public school?