Scott Howard PhillipsYou can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
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You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it. The idea that freedom is something that is defended in general, not in certain situations. Freedom isn’t something to defend in the face of an oppressive regime.
It isn’t something to defend in the face of a bully in school. Nor is freedom something to save when you are in danger. Freedom is an inherent right in every aspect of humanity’s existence, and it is something that must be defended in all situations.
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