A law which forbids me to de what I could not,as a sane being, canceivably wish to do is not a restraint af myfreedom.
Essentially just the 9th amendment of the constitution
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Hobbes, and thosewho agreed with him, especially conservative or reactionarythinkers, argued that if men were to be prevented from destroy~ing one another and making social life a jungle or a wilderness,greater safeguards must be instituted to keep them in their places
this kind of made me realize that James Madison's Federalist Papers were probably influenced by Thomas Hobbes, as it made me think of the former's "if men were angels" concept. The idea that this concept played a large role in influencing American political culture is interesting, considering how much individualism is stressed in the US
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individual freedommay go by the board, some other kind of freedom—‘social’ or
This idea is interesting, it gives a 9th amendment sort of understanding of sacrifices of some freedoms. Though some may say these freedoms have been "curtailed", Berlin argues that the freedoms have not been disparaged against, rather, it has been converted into a different form of freedom
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o ayoid glaring equality or widespread miseryome, or all, of my freedom!
This reminds me of the discussion over how much freedom should be traded for security, it's controversial especially in a post-9/11-PATRIOT act US
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Liberty is not the only goal of nien.
Can this goal also include more sinister intentions? Can liberty be used to justify these other goals? Can a person discard liberty as their goal?
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By being free in this sense mean not»tbeing interfered \with by others.
Similar to how Langston Hughes felt in his Freedom poem
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They believe, with goodreason, that if individual liberty is an ultimate end for humanbeings, none should be deprived of it by others; least of all chatsome should enjoy if at the expense of others,
reminds me of a question that asked if democracy and freedom was a means to an end or the end itself.
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exualizestheviolencethatmarksthewatercureasaformofcontrolakintorape.
This helps illustrate the power dynamic that was present in the occupation, which further wonders if what the US is spreading is actually freedom
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Getthegoodoldsyringe boys andfillittothebrimWe've caught anotherniggerandwe'lloperateonhimLetsomeonetake thehandlewhocanworkitwithavimShoutingtheBattleCryofFreedom.Hurrah. Hurrah. Webringthe Jubilee.Hurrah. Hurrah. TheFlag thatMakes himfre
I recognized this was based off of "Marching Through Georgia", which was a pro-union song of Sherman's march to the sea. it's ironic because the civil war was a conflict with a legitimately moral fight against slavery, and Marching Through Georgia embodies that, though in this case, the song has been bastardized to show the torture that the US was partaking in.
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caught another
This shows the dehumanizing lens of which they were seen through, so the soldiers may have seen that freedom was only applicable to those they saw as humans
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I recognized this was based off of "Marching Through Georgia", which was a pro-union song of Sherman's march to the sea. it's ironic because the civil war was a conflict with a legitimately moral fight against slavery, and Marching Through Georgia embodies that, though in this case, the song has been bastardized to show the torture that the US was partaking in.
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