communication. community. cognition.
Freedom
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property…”
- Adam Smith
Freedom
Life - Liberty - Property Rights
- Life alone = Indentured Servitude
- Liberty alone = Hermit
- Property alone = Brutish might
- Life + Liberty = Communism
- Life + Property = Serfdom
- Liberty + Property = Sociopathic Piracy
- Life, Liberty, and Property = FREEDOM
I haven’t done one of these in a while. The above is a thought experiment. If true freedom is a function of having the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property, then how would we recognize the circumstances where some or all are being weakened or eliminated?
It may well be that some of the components simply can’t exist without others. I’m okay with that.
Can you think of better descriptions for the diagram above? Better ways to define to regions where there is overlap? Better pure examples of only a right to property? Comment away…
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, freedom, political theory, economics, venn, Independence Day, Adam Smith[/tags]
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