{"id":637852,"date":"2021-08-12T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637852"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:22:26","slug":"opinion-those-who-say-screw-your-freedom-dont-understand-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-those-who-say-screw-your-freedom-dont-understand-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Those Who Say \u2018Screw Your Freedom\u2019 Don\u2019t Understand Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopinion-those-who-say-screw-your-freedom-dont-understand-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637852&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-477501586-e1628795613256.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cScrew your freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s what former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/567433-schwarzenegger-to-anti-maskers-screw-your-freedom\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Americans who oppose ever-changing government demands when it comes to masking as a defense against COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities,\u201d Schwarzenegger continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe cannot just say, \u2018I have the right to do X, Y and Z.\u2019 When you affect other people, that is when it gets serious,\u201d Schwarzenegger said, before comparing face mask mandates to traffic laws. <\/span><span>\u201cYou cannot say, \u2018No one is going to tell me that I\u2019m going to stop here, that I have to stop at this traffic light here. I\u2019m going to go right through it.\u2019 Then you kill someone else, and then it is your doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the same thing with the virus,\u201d Schwarzenegger argued. \u201cYou cannot go not put the mask on because when you breathe, you can infect someone else. And you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before digging deeper, we should ask whether he would view this same logic as justification for a permanent and total society-wide lockdown, with no person-to-person interaction permitted for the rest of time. After all, COVID-19 is far from the only disease which can be spread, let alone a whole host of \u201cButterfly Effect\u201d outcomes we could avoid if we surround ourselves in bubble wrap and live out our years in complete isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On a more serious note, the key problem here is that Schwarzenegger has demonstrated an utter ignorance for the double-edged and bi-directional sword that is freedom, along with the reality of the mortal world we inhabit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Freedom is inherently tied with responsibility. Freedom, at its core, is the ability to stand alone, make decisions, and live with the consequences of those decisions. However, Schwarzenegger blurred the line between this positive form of freedom and responsibility by referencing the notion of \u201cobligation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>First, under systems of freedom, no one is \u201cobliged\u201d to do anything. Instead, you can do what you want, but with a full understanding of the consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then, under this system of responsibility, since we are individuals who share the same civilization, it\u2019s obviously true that we must limit ourselves to some extent when it concerns the freedom of others. There is no right to murder one another, for example. After agreeing that this line between freedoms exists, we must then understand that the definition of this line must be carefully placed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Traffic lights, in this case, are the result of a long-standing debate over proven tools that allow a complex system of travel to become somewhat organized and allow people to travel freely while minimizing the risk for unintentional and intentional human damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the fact that the \u201ctraffic light\u201d freedom infringement is pragmatic does not mean that other infringements are equally pragmatic. The complete efficacy of masks as a tool against COVID-19 in real-life situations is still the subject of rigorous debate, <span>and yet Schwarzenegger is declaring the existence of a conclusion without performing any of the crucial prior steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We agree that lines between freedoms must exist, but that certainly doesn\u2019t give our pseudo-intellectual elites the right to skip debate and decide where those lines fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span> @ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cScrew your freedom.\u201dThat\u2019s what former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told Americans who oppose ever-changing government demands when it comes to masking as a defense against COVID-19.\u201cBecause with freedom comes obligations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}