Freedom Vs. License
On another list someone wrote:
>
> A kindergarten teacher allowed the children under her care
> to murder and torture each other. After she was arrested,
> the police asked why she didn't stop her kids from hurting
> each other. She said it was more im****tant to give them
> free choice. Then they asked her why she didn't help the
> weak kids beat the stronger ones. She said only the stronger
> kids need to have free choice, the weaker kids don't deserve
> it. She also infected her kids with all kinds of deadly diseases.
> When they asked her why she did it, she told them that she
> did it out of love.
Vast sums of effort and energy have been invested in confusing people
so that they cannot discern between freedom and what we call 'hefker'
in Hebrew, which translates in this particular instance as 'license'
in the derogatory sense.
Another translation of 'hefker' is ownerless property.
It should surprise no one that the confusion between freedom and
license has been intensely promulgated among the Anarchists.
This is really a simple matter and no one need fall prey to the
deliberation confusion and conflation.
We have as much freedom as we have self-control, responsible concern
for the general welfare and willingness to carry out that concern in
action.
The Native American tribes, for example, consider how the decision
they take will affect the next seven generations.
D2
