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Page 5 of 6 Because freedom can only be understood within an inter-human context, complete freedom does not mean the same thing as license. Freedom does not mean that an individual can necessarily do anything or everything that he or she pleases. Obviously, any circumstance in which two individuals find themselves wherein neither imposes upon the other, is not the same as a similar circumstance in which one individual does impose upon the other. If the one procedure exemplifies freedom, then the other must exemplify non-freedom, or slavery. License in this sense relates to a condition of slavery, not freedom. In this context, freedom means that each individual can do as he or she pleases with his or her own person and his or her own property, but the moment he or she imposes upon the person or property of another individual, he or she is acting like a slave master, and not like a free man or woman. Read that paragraph again. Although the slave master may be "free", in that he or she is not subject to the control of another person, it is certain that his or her slave is not free. Since freedom relates to an inter-personal situation or relationship, for freedom to exist all parties to the situation must be, and must remain, free.
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