Based on the way you always answer this issue, I really think I can predict your response: if someone came up to me and told me that they were going to either shoot me in the face, or shoot me in the back of the head, and I get to choose - and that they'd just choose for me if I refused to choose, I honestly feel like you'd actually argue that I made a free, informed choice, and the person holding the gun has no responsibility because I was given options.
And if you rightly think that this is absurd hyperbole, well, it is. I'm intentionally giving the most extreme example possible to try to highlight that you're so focused on freedom on paper that you fail to consider that someone can be absolutely "de jure" free, but be in de facto slavery - that just because someone managed to cross all of some ritualistic "freedom t"s and dot all of the "freedom i"s, this doesn't mean that they aren't, in fact, limiting the freedom of others. Power exists beyond governmental power, and people can be oppressed by things other than a government.
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Date: 31/3/13 01:22 (UTC)And if you rightly think that this is absurd hyperbole, well, it is. I'm intentionally giving the most extreme example possible to try to highlight that you're so focused on freedom on paper that you fail to consider that someone can be absolutely "de jure" free, but be in de facto slavery - that just because someone managed to cross all of some ritualistic "freedom t"s and dot all of the "freedom i"s, this doesn't mean that they aren't, in fact, limiting the freedom of others. Power exists beyond governmental power, and people can be oppressed by things other than a government.