Liberty: Warrior Mind Podcast #189
This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on the post “Liberty & Personal Responsibility”
The purpose of this Warrior Mind Podcast is to remind you that the liberty you have to do what you do does not exist everywhere and it wasn’t free. People are giving their lives daily to preserve our rights to create our own destiny.
Over the course of this century the ideals of liberty and personal responsibility have increasingly drifted apart. This means both ideals, liberty and responsibility, have become distorted. Personal responsibility cannot exist without liberty, and liberty will not persist without personal responsibility.
Liberty: the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.
“Give me liberty or give me death” – Patrick Henery
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Without the liberty to choose our own actions and make our own choices, we lose the qualities of responsibility and virtue that make us uniquely human. Only human beings possess self-consciousness.
Only we can reflect on the options available to us. Only we have the capacity to step aside from our urges and emotions in order to choose freely. Animals are not responsible for their actions.
They act on impulse, on instinct, or according to training. We cannot hold them ethically responsible for the way they act. Humans alone can choose to change their behavior. We alone can be responsible or irresponsible, virtuous or vicious.
Liberty is not license. Liberty means freedom from compulsion. It means being free to choose your own actions, make your own plans, and act on your own beliefs and values. If social chaos and disintegration do not concern us, then we may demand freedom alone.
If, however, we wish to live a productive, rewarding life in a flourishing society we will affirm that in demanding liberty we agree to take charge of ourselves. Freedom from outside control merely leaves a chaotic void if not replaced by control from within.
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