"Your freedom ends where your nose starts." This was the favorite expression of a teacher I once had. What she means is that there is no absolute freedom. True freedom is always relational. One cannot just do as he pleases. If you hit a person, you violate his own freedom to be treated as a person with dignity.
"Doing what I want," is a common misconception among young people of the true meaning of freedom. They are of the opinion that anything that gets in the way of their desires is a violation of their freedom. But this is a self-centered view. The exercise of one's freedom is ruled by how it affects others. It is what sets us humans apart from the rest of creation.
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