Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ May 24 2022 11:31am)
These are just examples to highlight my point.
Having the theoretical potential to do something isn't freedom if there is no practical capacity to do so.
I am not "free to go to the moon" if there's no way for me to actually get there. At least, not free enough that it actually matters.
If there is no way for you to actually get to the moon, it's nobody's fault. Fact is, nobody is preventing you from going to the moon. In theory you do still have the freedom to go to the moon. You either need to be smart enough to invent a spaceship that takes you there or you wait for someone else to do it. And in the mean time, you cannot complain that your freedom to go to the moon is non-existent. You are essentially complaining that you don't have a freedom just because things haven't been made easy enough for you. Now if there are people who actively try to sabotage your efforts at making a lunar spacecraft, then maybe you'd have a legitimate complaint. But such is not the case.
In your country, there are no easy ways for the average people to become POTUS. However, you can't say that this is proof that there is no freedom for an American to become president.
This post was edited by JessiWan on Jun 3 2022 03:27pm