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Dear Editor,

7 In modern times, / what “side” you are on, “freedom” is always under attack. We need to take careful note of what “freedom” is. I see that J.J. McCullough’ s pieces have generated a large debate among letters

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to the editor, staff of the paper, and bloated, hunger-ridden stomachs or from (gasp!) students themselves. Well, if diarrhea, cholera, unsafe drinking you know where I’m coming from by now, water, or exposure to the elements—and

you’ ve already figured out what I think of the articles coming from the Right Hook. But that doesn’t matter— even if I were to agree with that long-winded, full-page letter a few issues ago about the problems with citations, the persuasion of opinions expressed by Mr. McCullough—it’s not relevant. Finally, as someone who has written for left-of-center, radical, and other academic journals where McCullough’ s work would be politely refused—let me assure you that I defend J.J.’s articles from the call

they are going up every single year. Where is their freedom? Where are the freedoms that matter most? security, treats you with some level of respect, until a ripe old age with your grand- children? More people are planning for their families than are currently try- ing to organize a political party, write for a newspaper,

To live in with a decent job that

or even vote.

Macdonald Stainsby

for censorship here for a reason dif- ferent than the beautiful but complete- ly misunderstood notions of “freedom of speech.”

Freedom doesn’t exist in the abstract at all. The question is not whether you have an amorphous “freedom,” but rather a freedom to walk, to talk, to share ideas, and to live unmolested by the whims of another. The freedom to live without worrying about whether you are intrinsically worth something—not because you have enough money, the right gender preference or a particular skin colour, but because you are a human being—that’s a freedom we don’t enjoy. People in countries far removed from our day-to-day lives here in Canada don’t enjoy the freedom to live without fear of coercion by great pow- ers—coercion that can come in the form of bomber raids, housing demoli- tions, and the occupation of their own government by a foreign force. The rights I hold, that are not held by everyone, are not rights at all, but in fact are mere privileges. And priv- ileges come with responsibilities. It’s not that hard to grasp, really: Freedom is only absolute for the or so people who live absolutely alone, living off the woods, and never with any outside world help—and even then they are responsible to show the respect to the natural world of which they are only a part, so that they might continue to receive sustenance from it. Their freedom has a social, not individual essence.

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