I think that there is a difference between morality and freedom- freedom
is the right to act as you please, and morality is the obligation to use
that freedom wisely. Freedom is something that everyone has a birth right
to and the ability to retain as long as they act in a morally responsible
way.
We all all born free and systematically compromise until we are no longer
free financially or intellectually. At that stage, an individual is no
longer acting in a morally honest way- there are varying degrees of
freedom- people may think they are free if they are free to spend their
salary as they please, but this is merely a second order freedom because
that person is not necessarily free to determine how they earn an income.
Acting immorally endangers our true freedom.
Moral first-order freedom is fundamentally powerful- it confers great
power on the individual who has it such as mobility, integrity and
independence to learn and create. Every individual should strive for moral
freedom.
regards sincerely Simon Buckingham, unorganization: business not
busyness!
http://www.unorg.com
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