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RE: How do you see the freedom in a decentralized platform ?
So far, this platform for me is one of the most free for video.
I agree with what @kawaiicrush wrote about YouTube and about the price for freedom.
What is freedom in general? When you consider that your freedom ends where the freedom of another begins. What is freedom?
I cannot answer this question unequivocally.
Yeah, it's hard to define freedom for me as well. But I think it's the free will do to whatever we want. But maybe it's impossible. Let's say we want to fly or to breath under water. lol So there is no freedom in fact. But at least we are free to say what we want in particular topics and this is the most important. We just have to learn and improve and that's it. ☺
The point is that we can do anything we want pertaining to our free will of making choices. But when we do it we will have to deal with the reactions to those choices. For every action there is a reaction. This is a scientific fact.
Your freedom rests within your actons, your choices that you make in life, what you say, how you treat people. Freedom is not about wishing to have a set of wings and not being able to. That is more about your DNA and you are not a bird and therefore you can not have wings. You are not designed to be a bird. But you have something greater than a set of wings. Unlike animals you have a free will.
So if free will is making choices that you want to make. Then having wings, or breathing under water is not a 'choice' you have no choice to be a fish. You are a human. But you do have a choice in your actions you choose to make in life.
The free will to choose between right and wrong. Animals run on instincts. Humans run on free will and choices. Freedom is when we exercise our free will to make choices and decisions. And a lack of freedom is when someone prohibits and or stops you from being able to exercise your right to having freedom of your expression.
Exercising free will (exercising freedom) is action, and as the picture shows above for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is Newtons law. It is a scientific fact. So when we exercise our freedom which we are free to do that, we will have to deal with the 'reaction' from others (who also have free wills of their own..) to the 'action' of the exercising of our freedom when we exercise it. That was the point I was making.
Not being an animal is not because you are not free to be one. It is simply because you are not one. You have no choice in it. And therefore it is not about a loss of freedom. You can not be something you are not. You have not suffered a loss of freedom. Because wanting to be something and not being able to be that thing is not an issue of someone not allowing you to do it. You have no choice in it. And unless someone else blocks you from being a fish then you have not suffered a loss of freedom.
We can look at the slave trade going back hundreds of years. Those people suffered a loss of freedom. Not some person who says.. I want to be a unicorn but I cant. I hope this makes sense.
Thanks @behelen for understanding what I was trying to say.