Rights & Freedoms: Reaching for greater freedoms, personal respect and recognition.

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I was thinking about freedom and it occurred to me that I defined it by rights. It was an immediate visceral reaction. “It is my right! I have rights!” But the moment we define freedom by rights we have effectively limited the scope of what is free. We hold fiercely to our ‘rights’. We all do. But if we think of freedom in this manner as a group of…