[rlmorel]

Yes...good post. Hope all is well with you.

I had honestly never thought much about the difference between “Freedom” and “Liberty”, but given that words do have meaning, it would be wasteful to have two that mean exactly the same thing.

While it is not uncommon for two words to mean the same thing, to have two words in such an important, narrow and important confine does seem odd. Funny that it never occurred to me before.

What I take from this observation is that nobody can take freedom from you, you can only take it from yourself.

But...you can, and if you are not vigilant, will have your liberty taken from you.

Interesting. Went my whole life pondering these things and this never entered my mind.

[nathanbedford]

I'm getting older but I'm still getting over, I mean getting by.

Thanks for asking.

[nathanbedford]

Whether we put the label "freedom" or "liberty" on the subject we can clearly perceive the loss of these essential gifts of God all about us in our political world today.

Of course there are the restrictions arbitrarily imposed by statewide executive fait and justified by Corona 19. Equally threatening in my judgment are the restrictions coming from our digital masters on our sovereign power of speech.

We see the Rousseau concepts serving up justification to Google or Twitter for their denial of free speech. By the time these rationalizations are finished the believers are convinced that they are actually preventing harm to humanity even as they choke off the very speech that is the only thing that can save us. Once one identifies himself as the implementer of the "general will" any other opinion is, of course, a threat to humanity. Love of humanity, even Decency, require it be "canceled"-or in the digital world simply banished into the ether.