10-23-2021, 07:15 AM
(10-23-2021, 02:33 AM)Kay Wrote: Do Americans who hate freedom feel like traitors?
There are positive freedoms. One is that I can drive on Interstate 94 in Michigan in the westbound lanes if headed west and in the eastbound lanes if headed east. I do not have any right to drive eastbound in the westbound lanes or westbound in the eastbound lanes. That creates a "negative freedom", or freedom from a negative consequence, as in having no reasonable fear of meeting someone driving the wrong way at a high speed.
To be free from the risk of pointless death from gunfire because a criminal, lunatic, or spouse abuser has a gun is a negative freedom.
Do you get it?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.