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Waitbutwhy has a great series about this: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over. Limiting freedom (eg you can't kill others) can mean more freedom overall as more of the population are able to exercise their (limited) freedoms.



> Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over.

Am I the only one to see an interesting parallel to "copyleft" (e.g, [L]GPL) licenses (and a refutation of the "It's evil, viral, anti-free!" objections to them) here?




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