Paulism 2: Freedom means Responsibility

I began collecting Paulisms in high school. My poor friends had to listen to the insights I wrenched out of my head from long ago. It was decades before I began to write this stuff down.

In these blogs, I call them Paulisms. For years, they were just guideposts to my thinking, rarely were they expressed to others.

This one comes from high school.

Paulism 2: No matter how you measure Freedom, with every bit of Freedom comes and equal measure of Responsibility.

Paulism 23: Nutcases too

Freedom means you gotta have room for the nutcases.

With every new technology, idea, or concept in any field, there are those that will do wonderful things; and those that will try to abuse it. It's just that simple.

With every new idea or invention, some people ask: What horrible things can someone do?

My answer is dismissive: Who knows? Some people will only seek to abuse any level of power and freedom. The same technology that makes information available to millions can be used to control millions. Ideas that free the human mind from stress can be used to bury the mind in stress.

It all depends on the person.

This one correllates with number 2: Every measure of Freedom comes with an equal or greater measure of Responsibility.