Do we truly have the right to unlimited freedom?
Definitions:
Cambridge Dictionary: The power or right to act speak or think as one wants.
Wikipedia: Associated with having free will and being without undue constraints or unjust enslavement and is an idea closely tied with the concept of liberty, a person has the freedom to do things that will not in theory or practice be prevented by other forces.
Thomas Hobbes: Suggested that the surrender of freedom is necessary to a civilized society.
Jeremy Bentham: Proposed a utilitarian system of moral philosophy in which an action is judged by its usefulness in bringing about beneficial consequences: a morally good action maximises pleasure and minimises pain. A free society raises up and enables its citizens, but also entails giving up some of our personal liberties for the needs of the whole.
The United Nations Declaration of Human rights:
Article 13: 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state 2. Everyone has the right to leave any country including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20: 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
