[Fifth Business]

People don't hate abstractions, and freedom is an abstraction, especially to those that do not have it. It's like hating "hope". They may wish they had it; they may do what they can to get it; but they don't hate others becuse they have it.

My interpretation of what he was saying, or intending to say, is that the leaders in those societies consider our societies to be libertine, resent it, and take drastic steps to prevent such liberties in their societies. They live in theocratic States. Do you think I'm being too generous? Or are you being too critical?

[Cacophonous]

Perhaps I'm being too critical.