Thread:Ragnarok6354/@comment-24187738-20150327154858/@comment-25689453-20150328133359

How would you define freedom? For me, freedom is where most human wishes, either positive or negative, revolves around. Wishes like "I want to do this or that" or "I want to have this or that", they all revolve around Freedom. This wishes define a human's wish for freedom, whereas Freedom is a big compound of human wishes that defines each wish that made it so. Simply put, I think Freedom is just a human wish, but grander, and thus harder, but not impossible to achieve.

Most people will define freedom as being free from our shackles of life and chains of laws, being able to do anything you want to do without any restrictions. For me, Freedom is being under the many restrictions of laws and rules around. I couldn't help but agree that "freedom to walk on the streets safe at night, freedom from random shootings, from racism and corruption and so on" is thanks to the laws reinforced around us.

However, we can never achieve "True Freedom", because we're all bounded by the said laws, rules, and whatnot. Even when you think you've gone to a place where rules and laws don't exist, you are in reality still bounded by time and space, in which you can never be freed from. For me, the term "True Freedom" is just a hypothetical term, one that can be explained from different point of views but can never be achieved in reality. Its just an imaginary utopia in which one could never hope to reach.

Is it worthwhile to trade political and social freedoms for stability and economic success? Politics and Economy was some I never could hope to cope with, but I guess I'll try answering that question. Resuming from what I said before, yes, I do think its worthwhile to invest into Stability and Economic Success of a country, with the payment being Political and Social Freedoms.

Looking to my own country, Indonesia, we may not look like it, but we are really having a hard time to cope with our country's economy. The new president is doing the same thing as what we're discussing here. We've done with increasing law reinforcement of corruption drastically, which is the main reason of the country's low economy for many years. I think, its almost guaranteed that we'll be climbing high into the ladder of success in the near future if this law reinforcements continue.

True, citizens may be protesting for high prices and less political and social freedoms now, but if only they would settle down, things would have gotten much better. Our new president's reign has just begun, you can't expect crazily good things immediately. Soon, and hopefully true, we'll start seeing the aftereffects of trading these freedoms for the country's success, creating a more prosperous Indonesia in the process. It may take a while, but that is what I believe to be true.