What is freedom?Freedom is the ability to exercise your own free will, not the delegation of free will from someone in government.
There is a link between civil liberties and financial freedom: What good are your civil liberties if the government can take away all your money and vice versa. Freedom is a unit, personal liberty and economic liberty.
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
This website endorses freedom, we don't endorse what people do with their freedom.
“Every man has a freedom to do all that he wills, provided that he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.”
-- Herbert Spencer "The key to freedom is the ability to defend yourself."
-- Ron Paul
Concentration of powerQuote 1223 “ These two reason and freedom are corollaries and their relationship is reciprocal: when men are rational, freedom wins; when men are free, reason wins.
Their antagonists are: Faith and force. ” -- Ayn Rand
Freedom is inalienable and inevitableThere is no known method for fully controlling other peoples minds. This makes your freedom of thought inalienable.
As a person part of your make-up is ability to choose. It is part of your nature and you can't avoid it.
If Person A tells you to stand in the left corner, if you do it, you might argue you have no freedom. But if person A tells you to stand in the left corner and person B tells you to stand in the right corner, you have three options.
Stand in the Left corner
Stand in the Right corner
Do neither
No-one has taken your freedom away, whatever you do, it will be your choice regardless of how unappealing the options are.
Just as the burden of proof is on the accuser, not on the one accused. The burden of proof is one the one who would deny liberty away. One who wishes to sing a song or bake a cake should not have to start by begging permission from all others in the world. Nor should she have to rebut all possible reasons against baking or singing. The burden is on the forbidden, and that burden may be met if singer was depriving others of sleep, or the baker had dangerous cooking methods. But the presumption is for liberty.
It is the exercise of power, not the exercise of freedom that requires justification"
Freedom measures
Freedom is the solution"I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing the solution of the social problem is in liberty." -- Frédéric Bastiat " Far from entertaining the absurd idea of doing away with religion, education, property, labour, and the arts, when we say that the State ought to protect the free development of all these kinds of human activity, without helping some of them at the expense of others " -- Frédéric Bastiat Government cannot be a proponent of freedom, it does not know what it is.
Stefan Molyneux on how government enslave us.
Questions for libertariansRoads enhance freedom - just as allowing rape enhances the freedom of a rapist.Freedom is not the goal, morality is the goal.
Its not the free market that causes people to lose/suffer, its their own choices.
Because I bought an IPad, or worked for a company that supplied Apple products, it does not mean I am owed some of his fortune. We are not owed the portion of someone elses sucess becasue we sat on our thumbs.
Justifications for freedom
More freedomsWe have all heard about the freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association, but whats missing is the freedom to trade.
ReferenceLink638List of freedom indices
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