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briandmyers  ·  4014 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social Freedom

    ... not as some constant that all humans must necessarily agree on.

Exactly so. As a perhaps trivial example, in the country of my birth (USA), I was not free to distill ethanol for my own consumption - it's a federal crime with severe penalties. In my adopted country (NZ), I am free to do this, and stills are sold in shops. Different societies will always have activities which are restricted compared to other societies.