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Definition Argument on meaning of Liberty

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FREEDOM OVER LIBERTY

There are representations of liberty like the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty bell , but there is no tangible representation of freedom Perhaps the reason why liberty requires concrete and visible representations is because it is a concept that is so ambiguous that people need to have a real , material object to understand what it truly is . Freedom , on the other hand , requires no such representation because a statue erected in the name of freedom would defeat the

true meaning of the concept - statues freeze history and encroach on space that would be better used for other purposes - this in itself is a blatant disregard of the concept of freedom . Albeit material representations of liberty proclaiming its existence even believers in the concept can barely define what it really is as opposed to freedom that is deeply rooted in the psyche of a person and can easily be expressed , and mostly , in ways that are a cut above expressions of liberty . Freedom should be over liberty because liberty is non-existent , it is in-achievable , and it does not represent true human sentiment

Liberty does not exist because it is an invention of man that cannot comprehensively represent what man seeks to achieve . The non-existence of liberty is exemplified by the origin of the word itself . Liberty comes from the Anglo-Saxon word `libertas ' which is a combination 'liber ' which means free and 'tas ' which normally just means...

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