What percentage of human beings on this planet understand your point, "There is no morality without freedom?" That the concept of morality - let alone a "proper" one, rests on the epistemological concept of "free will," which rationally leads to the requirement for the political concept of the freedom to choose? Both free will and choice being attributes of the individual.
Compelling an individual to affirmatively behave in any way, while claiming the compulsion is rooted in "morality," is a contradiction. One can only morally compel another not to engage in specific behaviors. ONLY those behaviors that are preventing another from exercising/fulfilling their moral responsibility as political equals!
Their responsibility for the use of their free will, and the freedom to exercise it!
Superb article!
What percentage of human beings on this planet understand your point, "There is no morality without freedom?" That the concept of morality - let alone a "proper" one, rests on the epistemological concept of "free will," which rationally leads to the requirement for the political concept of the freedom to choose? Both free will and choice being attributes of the individual.
Compelling an individual to affirmatively behave in any way, while claiming the compulsion is rooted in "morality," is a contradiction. One can only morally compel another not to engage in specific behaviors. ONLY those behaviors that are preventing another from exercising/fulfilling their moral responsibility as political equals!
Their responsibility for the use of their free will, and the freedom to exercise it!
Dave