Freedom (G.B Shaw) — Flashcards

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A perfectly free person is someone who can do what he likes, when he likes, and where he likes, or do nothing at all if he prefers it. Shaw uses this idea to show that such total freedom does not exis…

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Because everyone is controlled by natural needs and limits. People must sleep, eat, drink, wash, dress, and travel. For half the day, people are slaves to necessities that cannot be avoided.

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It means the natural needs and limits that every human being must accept, such as sleep, food, and work for survival. This slavery is not hateful because Nature makes many necessities pleasant, like s…

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It means one human being controlling another through force, fraud, trickery, law, or social power. Shaw presents this as unnatural, hateful to body and spirit, and far worse than slavery to Nature.

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Nature's slavery is kind because it gives pleasure along with necessity, such as sleep, eating, and family life. Man's slavery is cruel because it forces one person to benefit from another person's la…

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The object of all honest governments should be to prevent people from being imposed upon. They should protect people from exploitation, not support it.

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Most actual governments do the opposite of what honest governments should do. They enforce slavery and call it freedom, while also regulating slavery and keeping the greed of masters within certain bo…

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It is a condition in which a worker is free to choose between one employer and another, but still remains dependent on wages. Governments call it a triumph for freedom, but for the worker it is only t…