Many people have different concepts about freedom. Some people say it is about thinking what we want to think. Others say it is wanting what we want and others argue it is about wanting that which we don’t want not wanting what we want. You may think the same as I, this looks like a big word puzzle.
In simpler words, for me personally, freedom involves much more than only thinking and wanting what we want, but we need to be responsible for our own free actions. If you are totally free, you may do whatever you want to do, for example getting drunk everyday of the week. I mean you could do that if you want to, but you need to be responsible for that action. You may not want to assume the responsibility of the effects or the action in order to get drunk.
Freedom is doing what we want to do, without anyone telling us what to do. But in order to be completely free, first of all, you need to be able to do it. If there is no possible way of achieving our goal, then we can argue that we are not totally free. Secondly, you need to take the responsibility of you action. Freedom is a very complicated word to define and people define it in very different ways. For me, freedom and responsibility are linked; you can’t be free if you are not responsible.
I definitely agree with what Erick is saying in this blog. He talks about being free different from doing whatever you want. What I liked the most is when he said “wanting what we want, but we need to be responsible for our own free actions”. I liked this the most because it is true that we should learn how to use our freedom We should not go just doing whatever we want whenever we want.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you Erick; we can't be free if we are not responsible. In order to something, first we have to think of the consequences that that action will bring. If you accept the responsibility of those consequences, then you can go and do that thing that you were wanting to do. We need to be responsible of our own actions.
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