True Freedom is a narrow path, just as fidelity to your husband or wife is a narrow path. One misstep, and you’re in a quagmire of problems. On either side of this narrow path of true freedom, are massive ever deepening and darkening gulfs—gradients of slavery.
Whether it’s the often unnoticed slavery of emotional manipulation in your close relationships, or the abject slavery of a government as it enslaves its people through legislation, taxation, censorship, or forced labor schemes, only a valid and honorable contract (via mutual consent) can keep us on the narrow path of true freedom.
When someone ignores your free will, violates your rights, or denies you the right of mutual negotiation, your free will can’t be brought to bear, you are enslaved.
Rights are violated when the gatekeeper thereof, man’s will, is prevented from acting.
Slavery, in all its varied forms, is always the use of coercion or manipulation to prevent your free will from operating. Thus, only the opposite, only honorable negotiation, and its fruit, honorable contracts and agreements allows two beings with equal rights to enjoy their rights via free will choice—mutual consent.
Consent of the Governed is the only real standard, all else is false freedom.
Now ask yourself, how often has your free will been denied, manipulated, or coerced?
We know not how far from the path we have truly fallen, be it personally or civilly.
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