FREEDOM PRECEDES RESPONSIBILITY
The following are some of the interrogations that trigger our minds; Is there such a thing like freedom? Are the human beings free? The above-mentioned queries arise probably because of law that makes some to say that they are not free. Oxford Dictionary defines freedom as the quality or state of being free, such as the absence of coercion, or constraint in choice or action. As I have always stated, there is a need of having a philosophical and logical eye in such matters. If we happen to define freedom as the ability to do what one wants, our arguments will not only be illogical or non-philosophical but nonsensical. I prefer to define freedom as the state of choice visible or invisible after a rational process. In this regard freedom is a matter of consciousness and outside this context, we refer to it as an illusion. Having that in mind, with the law or without we remain to be free beings. Mad people in this case are not free and cannot be held responsible for the cho...