What does 'freedom' mean to you?

Everybody loves freedom. Everybody wants it. At least, that is a common assumption. But a lot of questions need to be answered. For example: What is freedom exactly, and can it be accurately defined?

Is freedom the same as democracy?

Is freedom the the right to do anything I want - regardless of the impact on anyone else?

Should I have the freedom to:

* Enter your house and steal your money?
* Smoke marijuana or inject heroin?
* Drive at 150 km per hour?
* Say anything I like?
* Kill someone, if they ask me to?

These are troubling moral questions. All the more so, because they deal with highly contentious issues...
Is there any received moral code that can answer such questions unambiguously?

The question is always: "At what point does my freedom impinge on another person's freedom - and therefore nullify such freedom?"

So how about you?


What does 'freedom' mean to you?

What's your definition of freedom?

Feel free to comment and answer this question...i will read all your comments...

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[1628820]

FREEDOM to me is:1)doing whatever i want as long as it does not harm others.2)practice my religion freely and demand people'respect as long as i respect them and their religion.3)say my opininon and express&discuss it as long as i let others do the same in general freedom is DEALING WITH PEOPLE WITH THE SAME WAY I WANT THEM TO DEAL WITH ME

[freeegypt]

i totally agrre with u

[bsaleh]

Freedom is a real big word. For me Freedom start with free press and being open minded to the other point of view. Freedom includes democracy where ppl set up the definition of freedom by themselves not the corrupt governments.

[freeegypt]

I agree with u bsaleh....thnx for ur comment...:)

[hydrullica]

freedom means not to be afraid from what u say and what u do ;) !! that is for me FREEDOM ;) thanx for the video :) really good work ;)

[freeegypt]

Thnx for ur comment hydrullica....:)

[kilsya1]

@cravintruth like i've said, there is no true freedom, if there was I could walk up to lady gaga and kick her in the nuts, (which she has for your info) and not get in trouble for it. Every place has rules, the universe is made of rules, like gravity, or what things are made of, why does any certain object have to be made of an element and still be the same?

[kilsya1]

I don't want to be free, I just want to be happy, there is no true freedom, if there was, I would be able to fly. My point is to stop wasting your time on something you can't get, it's become something not of being happy and free, it's being stubborn and and trying to prove yourself against the things holding you down, but what all goals come down to is trying to reach for more happiness, surviving is, if you survive you feel good that you survive, e.g. you can be happy about dieing or not.

[cravintruth]

freedom is an illusion, America is not free, it is tolerant. Freedom to me would be living a life without the fear of being persecuted over some bullshit like smoking pot or placing a bet or lets say my pussy luck is low and I need a hooker...so what? I laugh at the idea that America is free. For a free country, it sure has a lot of rules. Land of opportunity perhaps. In a truly free nation, nobody should have to tell you,"you're free" Freedom is an illusion

[NebunLaCap]

As Gandhi said ignorance is the cause of all human suffering. Ignorance is used in this way not to just mean not knowing, but ignorant of other people's feelings. In true freedom, one should be able to do WHATEVER the fuck he wants as long as it doesn't cause any human suffering. It's all about love. Being considerate/empathetic of other people. My opinion of course...

[NebunLaCap]

As Gandhi said ignorance is the cause of all human suffering. Ignorance is used in this way not to just mean not knowing, but ignorant of other people's feelings. In true freedom, one should be able to do WHATEVER the fuck he wants as long as it doesn't cause any human suffering. It's all about love. My opinion of course.

[katvakalo]

@1628820 all you say is JUST what i wanted to support!!!IN THIS UNJUST SOCIETY WHICH WE HAVE CREATED,I AM LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT,THE JUSTICE AND THE TRUTH...

I 'm just a 16-year-old girl,but i'm completely conscious about the existant social and politican situation of this world and i'm gonna try my best in this life to improve them.Freedom means REAL dimocracy and we deserve it!!!

(katerina from athens,Greece)

[Tantegans]

Freedom for me is being allowed to be gay and most of all freedom is about trust and control.

[BLFInternational]

FREEDOM for me is to not have to work and spend time with family and being there for my daughter, wife and other friends.

Its about having an income that still pays you after you done all the hard work.

Its about doing good being free to help the people who need it.

Freedom will only come to people who do good.

But we all have our own views and that in its self is freedom.

[yakitoriPB]

why do you restrict drug use to non agreesive? If people are heroin addicts should they be supplied with clean needles, clean product, and overdose kits? They are going to do it regardless of the law and it is safer for them under supervision. And besides, most illicit drugs at one time were used as a pharmaceutical agent to treat something. I know more people that abuse prescription drugs than illegal ones.

[NeoXC]

Sure, there are laws put in place to deny specific freedoms, like speed limits or not allowing businesses to collude over prices. They're there to protect society as a whole and to keep it from collapsing.

Things like gay marriage, prostitution, gambling, polygamy, marijuana use (non-aggressive drugs), etc, where individuals are consenting among themselves to pursue happiness, which have no, or barely any effect on others around them, shouldn't be outlawed.