Literally no, we’re all slave to these empires jocking for power

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The threshold gets crossed when what you do starts negatively impacting other people. Up until that point, no.

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I would say yes. For instance we need laws so people can have some foundation of justice, of course. But also individually, gaining too much freedom at a point might overload that individual psyche, causing them to stumble in confusion and eventual despair. Humans, whether we admit it or not, crave and seek some sense of order in a chaotic world.

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