Our "freedom".

Freedom is in theory a very easy concept to understand. Freedom is to do whatever you want and to think whatever you want, but something I have learned this last week at my philosophy class is that freedom is not that simple, for example sometimes when you think you’ve made a choice or action freely you don’t notice that many external factors are controlling you and affect your decision in a big part. And also even today at the twenty first century there are many places where slavery exists.

Another example of violation of liberty, I think, is when someone introduces a subliminal message of any kind on other people, this is a violation to freedom because you should be able to make choices freely, when someone induces you, unconsciously, an idea he or she is violating your freedom to choose.

I am also aware that many people misuse the concept of liberty and transforms it into libertinism, I think that the main reason that sometimes there are lots of limits or boundaries in “liberty” is because many people transforms liberty into libertinism by doing whatever they want and even brake some laws arguing that they are “free” to do what they want, or says “I live in a free country”. So in order to get our true freedom we should start to respect others freedom.