Freedom is not the ability to do whatever one wants. That is a false definition.
You're free to kill someone, right? What would happen as a result? You would go to jail and therefore lose your freedom. It makes no sense that freedom could be lost by exercising it.
Freedom is broad, but it has it's limits, just like we, as humans, have our limits. We cannot do anything that we want or else it would quickly lead to destruction and death.
So this broad, unbounded, infinite freedom cannot ever be realized by us, since we are finite. We can accept that we can never be "free" or we can look at an alternative definition of freedom, one that does not lead to the loss of freedom when exercised. This definition is: freedom is the ability to do what you should do, what you were made to do, the ability to act in accord with your nature.
What happens when you look at freedom in this way? You can never lose it because you are only free to do things that peaceably go well with our conscience. Things that are not in accord with human nature inherently take away from our freedom. It is wrong to believe that the practice of such behavior would be an exercise of human freedom. Like mentioned before, doing things such as killing, which are not in accord with our nature, inherently enslave us.
You're free to kill someone, right? What would happen as a result? You would go to jail and therefore lose your freedom. It makes no sense that freedom could be lost by exercising it.
Freedom is broad, but it has it's limits, just like we, as humans, have our limits. We cannot do anything that we want or else it would quickly lead to destruction and death.
So this broad, unbounded, infinite freedom cannot ever be realized by us, since we are finite. We can accept that we can never be "free" or we can look at an alternative definition of freedom, one that does not lead to the loss of freedom when exercised. This definition is: freedom is the ability to do what you should do, what you were made to do, the ability to act in accord with your nature.
What happens when you look at freedom in this way? You can never lose it because you are only free to do things that peaceably go well with our conscience. Things that are not in accord with human nature inherently take away from our freedom. It is wrong to believe that the practice of such behavior would be an exercise of human freedom. Like mentioned before, doing things such as killing, which are not in accord with our nature, inherently enslave us.