We don’t need freedom, we already have it.
We don’t need to assert our Scottishness, as a visitor, you already know how overt we are about our identity. If anything, independence would for many people, inc myself, actually turn the Scots inwards, and we would become a parochial nation, self-satisfied, rather than being part of a bigger whole (the UK).
Scotsman,
Yes, I do see your point and my gut feeling says you are absolutely correct.