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Like responsibility, freedom is an abstract concept. As we learned earlier, in order to understand an abstract concept, it is often helpful to compare and contrast it with its intellectual opposite. In terms of freedom, one such opposite is the concept of slavery. Slavery and freedom are mutually exclusive terms. If a man or woman is free, it follows that he or she is not enslaved. If a man or woman is a slave, it follows that he or she is not free. Consider the following human mental, physical, and moral attributes, compared under conditions of both freedom and slavery: FREEDOM | | SLAVERY | individual self-choice | - mental - | external choices of others | self-motivated actions | - physical - | external control imposed
over actions | individual responsibility | - moral - | shifted responsibility |
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