The Law of Freedom
As morality increases, freedom increases.
As morality declines, freedom declines.
Definition
The Law of Freedom states that freedom and morality rise and fall together. Freedom is not self-sustaining. It does not emerge from slogans, institutions, or declarations alone. It is the natural consequence of moral behavior rightly understood and rightly lived across the entire species.
What This Means
If morality increases, freedom increases. If morality declines, freedom declines. This is not a political slogan. It is a causal principle based in true science.
A society cannot remain free when its people do not understand the difference between right action and wrong action. Where morality weakens, self-governance weakens with it. Where self-governance weakens, external control expands.
Why Morality and Freedom Are Linked
Freedom is only possible among beings capable of governing themselves according to objective moral law. If individuals cannot restrain themselves from theft, violence, coercion, deception, and harm, then power accumulates externally to manage the resulting disorder.
This is why morality and freedom are inseparable. Freedom is not the absence of all restraint. It becomes possible when individuals restrain themselves from doing wrong or harmful behavior.
What Happens When Morality Declines
When morality declines, suffering and slavery ensue. This decline does not have to be absolute to become dangerous. Even partial moral collapse produces predictable effects: more deception, more dependence, more corruption, more fear, and more willingness to surrender freedom for the promise of order.
It is plain to see that cause and effect has put us in the current state of slavery. Most do not understand that you cannot make change in the realm of effect. You can only effect change in the causal realm. The current condition of slavery we are experiencing in the aggregate is the collaborative effect of behaviors that have been enacted in the causal realm.
Personal Responsibility and Self-Governance
The vacuum will always be filled. When you relinquish your personal responsibility to a leader, that is exactly what you will get.
What people fail to govern within themselves will eventually be governed from outside themselves.
Freedom, Authority, and Control
Freedom is not granted by governments. It is not secured permanently by constitutions, laws, or institutions. At best, such things can acknowledge or temporarily preserve a condition that already depends on morality.
Unfortunately, many believe the definition of freedom is oppressing and forcing the false notion of democracy on another nation so that natural resources can be pillaged and yet another system of control can be implemented in the guise of authority.
The claim of authority of one being over another is the claim of ownership, and there is only one word for that: slavery.
Where morality rises, freedom rises.
Where morality falls, freedom falls and slavery ensues.