Are We Free?

Free. John Locke said that everyone has indivisible natural rights at birth. As a human being, we have the right to life, liberty and wealth. Locke's social contract theory gains the concept of defining and analyzing how this theory implies freedom. As a society, we are free to a certain extent. For social coexistence, people must abandon their sovereignty over the government to profit and maintain social order. Locke said that life would be "annoying, savage, short-lived" without the authority of the government.

The human narrative is a quest for increasing freedom of individuals. America is a very successful experiment of liberal democracy. In other words, we are not free. We are pretty free. We are not democratic. Indeed, in many ways, we look like a republic. The election campaign elects the president every four years because the founder really do not trust people. "People" means Caucasians who owned the land at that time. The founder wanted a mechanism to hide the "wrong" decision of the gentleman of the land. Women and African Americans are not even granted the right to make "mistaken" decisions.

I am a determinist, so in my opinion life is not a free roaming but a complex roller coaster. Therefore, we can not choose freely, but it is free to experience what is happening around us. There is no freedom to act, but perhaps we have a free experience. Is this really free? So, as long as the certainty is nearly correct, we may be trapped in a roller coaster and the eyes may be opened. There is no choice at any point in our life. However, if you live in ignorance or do not believe in determinism, you can "experience freedom" even if you do not actually have it. I certainly saw someone who is fully confident. This is the closest we can get