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The Idea That Freedom Is Merely The Ability To Act Upon One's Whims Is Surely Very Thin And Hardly Begins To Capture The Complexities Of Human Existence; A Man Whose Appetite Is His Law Strikes Us Not As Liberated But Enslaved.

How Many People Does Each Of Us Know Who Claim To Seek Happiness But Freely Choose Paths Inevitably Leading To Misery?

The Aim Of Untold Millions Is To Be Free To Do Exactly As They Choose And For Someone Else To Pay When Things Go Wrong.

Where A Reputation For Intolerance Is More Feared Than A Reputation For Vice Itself, All Manner Of Evil May Be Expected To Flourish.

When People Are Forced To Remain Silent When They Are Being Told The Most Obvious Lies, Or Even Worse When They Are Forced To Repeat The Lies Themselves, They Lose Once And For All Their Sense Of Probity. To Assent To Obvious Lies Is To Co-operate With Evil, And In Some Small Way To Become Evil Oneself. One's Standing To Resist Anything Is Thus Eroded, And Even Destroyed. A Society Of Emasculated Liars Is Easy To Control.