Your freedom is likely to encroach on the liberty of others. Isaiah Berlin examined these kinds of contrarieties. Freedom is a word bantered about promiscuously by Republicans. One should be free to purchase assault rifles but not free to get an abortion. One should be free to drill for oil but not free to read certain books ( especially if you're a kid). According to Mike Johnson democrats are not free to put their VPs in the running, while Republicans are free to discredit the results of the 2020 election (even though everyone knows the truth which is that Donald Trump has threatened to excommunicate any Republican who doesn't go with the flow). Freedom is one thing for existentialist thinkers who believe that nothing presupposes their being (a la Sartre's Being and Nothingness) and another for metaphysicians. Faust was free to make his bargain with Mephistopheles.
and listen to "Boogaloo Down Broadway" by Johnny C
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