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mistermann on Nov 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Freedom is not a goal, but a direction

Did you not like the question so you avoided it by asking one of your own instead, or is something I'm not familiar with going on?

marginalia_nu on Nov 18, 2021 [–]

An action has an undesirable consequence, does this mean it is impossible to perform?

The question isn't whether we are free under all circumstances, but whether we are free now.

mistermann on Nov 18, 2021 | [–]

I agree that lack of freedom always exists simultaneously at some level, but at the specific level posed in the question are you free?

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