tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post115763584385548949..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: The real free loveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1157714792470858972006-09-08T21:26:00.000+10:002006-09-08T21:26:00.000+10:00Bobby, you hit the nail on the head when you wrote...Bobby, you hit the nail on the head when you wrote:<BR/><BR/>"I suspect it comes unstuck when that same 'free' person requires others to act in a certain way towards them. Why should they?"<BR/><BR/>Indeed, why should they? Liberalism assumes that we can pursue our life goals as autonomous individuals. Most of us, though, have important goals which require the cooperation of other people.<BR/><BR/>It's no use, for instance, a woman having the goal of enjoying a stable, monogamous marriage and being financially supported to stay at home with her young children, if the men she meets want nothing more than casual sex. Her life dreams become impossible to realise, no matter how "free" she is.<BR/><BR/>In effect she is compelled to accept something else that she has not freely chosen.<BR/><BR/>A society, therefore, has to arrange things so that the most important and beneficial things people seek to fulfil are possible to achieve.<BR/><BR/>Do most people really want to spend their entire lives practising "free love" (i.e. being players?) I suspect not. Therefore, we have to be protective of the conditions which make it possible to marry successfully.<BR/><BR/>That's how we really become "free" to fulfil what is most important to us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com