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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (8935)	12/14/2010 6:48:52 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

<<Also a cop-out is your argument that what freedom means is something "the people in democracies have to figure out for themselves." By that philosophy, anything - and I mean ANYTHING - "the people in democracies" collectively choose to do cannot violate any principle of freedom. Freedom, then, is a word with no meaning.>> You so want to pin the idea of freedom down to a specific thing. Enstein taught us everything is relative and quantum mecanics taught us that nothing is as it seems and everything is nothing more than a probability. The right wing likes to insist on a static objective reality. Liberals know that just isn't how the universe exists. We live in a quantum uninverse and everything is relative and subjective, as any good existentialist would tell you e.g. Joyce.-lol. There are no absolutes.