I would also add that in doing certain behaviors, you aren’t really all that free. Addiction isn’t freedom, being indoctrinated heavily in a distorted lifestyle is not freedom, or open-mindedness, but abuse. Giving a distortion that being raised by a mother and a father shouldn’t be the ideal isn’t freedom. Again, natural law was about giving freedom, not free reign of one group over another.
So very true, Morpheus2009. It seems the “freer” that we become as a society, the more problems are created. The type of philosophy of “if it feels good then do it”... what has it created? More divorce, molestations, adultery, teen/unwed pregnancies, abortions, STD/HIV.. the list just goes on and on.
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke