[extropy-chat] is freedom overrated?

[Russell Wallace]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:20:22 -0800 (PST), Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Being free is about self ownership. Having self ownership means an
> unlimited power to contract and to enforce those contracts as well as
> to have them enforced upon yourself (i.e. responsibility). Taking too
> many jobs, or having too many kids is you contracting for
> responsibility that is a trade off against your liberty. The key is
> that you freely choose this responsibility by your own positive acts
> and do not have them forced upon you. Involuntary servitude is wrong.
> Voluntary servitude is not.

Or, as Robert Jordan put it:

"That mountain can get awfully heavy sometimes. When do you find time
to put it down for awhile?"
"When you die."

- Russell