In this Chapter, number 6, Savater talks mainly on Liberty. I think liberty is a very important and interesting thing to talk about. Liberty for me is to do whatever I want at the time I wish, which means I have freedom of choice and thinking.
Sadly in today’s world there are thousands of people with limited liberty or sometimes null liberty. People who are kidnapped are taken out from their liberty and need to follow orders.
Liberty is always in hand with responsibility. As Savter says, if we have liberty, we also have responsibility. For example I have the liberty to get in my car and drive to school and it’s also my responsibility to attend school. If I’m bored or I don’t want to go to school, I can do that and not go to school because I have the liberty to choose what I want, but the problem here is that we are not having responsibility of our acts.
Same goes with drinking and driving. I have the liberty to drink, go to parties and if it’s necessary drive there. My responsibility then is that I must know if I am able to drive or not, and if I am in a very bad mood or not good to drive I can tell a friend or take a taxi.
As we can see every liberty and every action we make with that liberty also has a responsibility, therefore with the education we have gathered throughout the years, we should know what’s good and what’s not. This way we can make good decisions that wouldn’t affect ourselves. So in resume we have liberty, but we should make choices or acts with a lot of responsibility.
Hey Martin, I agree with you, freedom is always linked with responsibility, as you are free to act but you are also responsible for all of your acts. I like the example of drinking and driving, you are fully responsible of the action you choose, if someone drink too much, as you said, should ask a friend or go in taxi.
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