Freedom

[tomdemaine]

Freedom to me means freedom of association and everything else comes out in the wash. Once I can associate with who I want when I want about what I want (assuming of course that others are free not to associate with me if they wish) everything else will flow from that.

Of course complete freedom of association is an ideal that is difficult if not impossible to reach. I didn't want to associate with the mugger who robbed me a few weeks ago but he didn't give me much of a choice. The closer we get to true free association the better off we all will be.