(May 10, 2021 at 11:49 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It looks as if you're framing this between two concepts: freedom and sacrifice. That any encroachment on our individual freedom is seen as a forced and painful taking-away -- a sacrifice. This looks like a modern, American, more or less consumerist vision to me.
Yes, I suppose that's true. This is an individualistic society and that is the frame of reference I'm taking. I wouldn't know how to frame the question within a collectivist society.