Freedom is Over rated
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Let me read an excerpt from Rev. Donald J. Sanborn's "The Cult of Liberty".
"If we substitute the word "eating" for "freedom" we will see how absurd this notion is. The ability to eat and digest is a faculty of nourishment for human beings. Our eating is morally good if it is ordered to a good end; morally bad if ordered to a bad end. If we eat good food in moderation, then the exercise of our faculty of eating participates in the goodness of the end, which is the health of the body. If on the other hand, we are eating something bad for us, or something good in excess, then our eating becomes morally evil, since it participates in that evil end. But imagine if someone said, "It doesn't matter what you're eating or how much you're eating, what is good is that you are eating."
It doesn't matter at all what we are doing; we should be doing it freely, unrestricted and independent of necessity and fate...