From: laelth@yabbs
To: Patton@yabbs
Subject: re: re:True Freedom
Date: Sat Jul  9 01:19:36 1994

There are more important things than freedom.  Freedom is a myth, anyway, 
as pixy has noted.  We perpetrate a lot of injustices in the name of 
"freedom."  Perhaps our society would be healthier if, instead of freedom, 
we prized things like "duty," responsibility," "fair play," or 
"tolerance."

Freedom serves as justification for a lot of the problems that our nation 
faces like greed (the freedom to make all the money I want, no matter who 
I hurt in the process), violence (the freedom to kick somebody's teeth in 
if they deserve it), selfishness (the freedom to look out for my own 
interests, and to hell with everybody else), need I go on?

People get involved in politics for lots of reasons, but the search for 
"freedom" is not a particularly political goal.  Politics isn't about the 
individual so much as it is about collective bargaining, getting along, 
building a society, working together.  And that's what's wrong with 
"freedom."  Freedom, as a national Ideal (which it is in America), is 
pulling us apart at a time when we desperately need to be pulling 
together.

-laelth