Why freedom is the cause of problems in a society?

Answer 1

Freedom was the direction western society took after the abolishment of the feudal system were kings and landowners in partnership with the Church were exploiting the common folk in the name of religion.

religion had the view that man is born in sin and is inherently evil and needs to be contained within religious laws that restrict these impulses to do evil.

the answer was to abolish religion from life and section it off to the 4 walls of the church out of harms way and to adopt a new civilization in its place.

this was called secularism and freedom was the new outlook on life.

according to freedom, the opposite view is held, that man is born GOOD and not EVIL and to allow this good to come through, he or she has to be given freedom constrained only by laws that limit the freedom of one person when it starts to deny or infringe the freedom of another person.

the truth is that this assumption was false, ie humankind is not born inherently GOOD or inherently EVIL but is born inherently NEUTRAL!

This means that a baby has no information about the way to life and only has needs or drives which force him or her to perform actions to satisfy such drives. The criteria of right and wrong, good or bad has to be taught and is usually adopted from the environment.

By believing in the doctrine behind Freedom, mankind is drifting towards inner low level instinctual urges such as unfettered greed, exploitation and oppression of the weak by the strong.

This is because of the mistaken assumption (which was a knee jerk reaction triggered by the hatred towards the religious stance of humankind being inherently evil ie original sin) that mankind will drift towards goodness if left free.

I believe that the moral, economic, social, political decay we see is attributed to this central cause and until freedom is questioned at this fundamental level, we will continue to drop into this abyss.