Freedom is not a goal, but a direction
&gt; Under the influence of politically correct extremism, individual thought and expression are too often curbed<p>Uh-huh. I can only assume this refers to the so-called &quot;cancel-culture&quot; which probably doesn&#x27;t exist (I am not claiming that there aren&#x27;t &quot;cancellation&quot; incidents, but for this to exist as a &quot;culture&quot; or a trend, it needs to be shown that fewer people today can express and publicly disseminate fewer opinions than in the past; this is probably the very opposite of reality).<p>Freedom is almost self-contradictory. A person living alone in the world can be free, but two cannot. Either they have the freedom to curtail the other&#x27;s freedom, or they do not. Either way, someone here is not fully free. So whenever people speak of more freedom, the question is, more freedom for whom and at the expense of whom. Like anything political, freedom is a resource that needs to be allocated among people, and there are valid debates over how. But within reasonable circumstances, there is no one direction toward freedom, but many directions, each giving more freedom to some and less to others.