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Freedom is the ability to pursue happiness, live with constant threat of losing life, and the ability to express your opinions. Such as found in a state where a government serves it purpose: keeping order and creating unity.

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I started it off without a explanation for a reason. When you start off a debate you don't debate yourself.

So here we go, Freedom, is nothing explainable by human beings. The only thing on earth to truly explain freedom is animals in the wild. They have no constraints besides nature around them. Their voices are not seized but through their death. Human's always have constraints. We have boundaries that we have. When you say freedom to express your opinion where can you do this? Can you actually go places and say certain things, without certain death, or incarceration? We as human beings must understand what Freedom is. Freedom comes with responsibility. As you see everything in life, has responsibility. You can't name one thing that does not. Even if you are a lazy person, you are still responsible to yourself. So the first part of the debate of the word Free, is responsibility.

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I thought I answered this but it did not post.

The outcome is the debate. I could have sat there waiting years for someone to reply. The thing was to make anyone think. That is the foundation of learning, to create something from nothing, or to seek understanding through wisdom.

Free is a very hard word to even envision. We sit we think and we react like free human beings. I have stated earlier that we are free, as long as we accept responsibility. See you can commit crimes, get locked up and lose your freedom.

You can be in a relationship that is going nowhere, and lose your freedom. Anything that constricts your Will to Learn, and to Understand you are not Free. American's must realize we have Freedom, only if it does not affect others.

Also, we must understand, the Tree of Life, what we do to ourselves also affect others.

It is time as human beings we truly appreciate the Freedom we have. That is why it is called FREEDOM.
Free Them.

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I disagree, animals are not entirely free. they are free if your considering that they share the same wants in terms of freedom as we do. we want the freedom to do anything but they on the other hand want the freedom to survive but it is not promised- their survival is not attributed by their freedom to survive but rather their struggle to survive.

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struggle to survive does not only include protecting onesself from predators but also nurturing ones self.

woulkd you mind explaining what you think freedom is

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To understand freedom, you have to understand natural rights. Natural rights refers to the fact that each human being controls their own actions and behavior; each human being "owns" his/herself.

If you accept this axiom, then a universal ethic is easily found. Thus, freedom means every (adult) human being can do whatever they want, so long as they do not violate the rights of others through force or fraud. Also, because each person owns themselves, they have the right to their justly acquired property, the fruits of their time and labor. Similarly, the state has no more authority than that which is required to enforce and protect these rights, because the people in power have no more rights than do the rest of us.

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