With The Odyssey doing big business this summer, how do you like your mythology, the Greek version or the Roman? Zeus vs Jupiter, Ares vs Mars, Aphrodite vs Venus, and so on?
Share why if you wish.
What Is Your Favorite Keepsake?
Many families have heirlooms passed from generation to generation. Or maybe you started your own tradition. Do you have a favorite keepsake?
Share why if you wish.
What Is The Definition Of Freedom?
The word ‘freedom’ gets brought up a lot, by all kinds of people. But what does it even mean?
Regardless of your personal political leanings, you will likely have heard someone who agrees with you and someone who disagrees with you, talking about how their freedoms are being curtailed. Politicians of all stripes use the word frequently, often with a generic-sounding phase like, “I’ll fight for your freedoms!”
Certainly, this sounds good. We all want to be free, right? Free to say and do what we want without government interference. Of course, complete individual freedom immediately comes into conflict with other individual freedoms. My right to drive on the wrong side of the road conflicts with your right to have a safe commute.
What we say and do impacts other people, and so there have to be rules, and those rules place limits on our freedoms. The first amendment, for instance, guarantees free speech, but even free speech has limits.
Additionally, there seems to be some confusion about consequences. Free speech means you have the right to say any offensive thing you want. But other people then also have the right to think you are a jerk for saying them. Which might mean you get fired from your job, or friendships might end. You are not free from consequences of your speech and/or actions.
Most people agree that one person’s freedom does not permit them to injure or kill someone else. But what about injury to themselves? Or injuries to society as a whole? Most people seem to agree that requiring drivers to wear seatbelts is an overall good, for example, even though it limits the freedom of the driver.
How do you define freedom? Do you feel that our society is more free than not? In what ways are your freedoms being restricted? Are there times when that restriction is a good thing?
Related questions: Are you free? What makes something a human right? Freedom or security?
Duality Or Trinity?
There are well-known twosomes (many featured in these Thursday Throwdown questions!) and threesomes. Which speaks to you more, duality or trinity?
It’s nice to have an either/or choice, but a tripod needs three legs to stand. Or maybe we should consider unity as an alternative?
Share why if you wish.
Duality Or Trinity?
How Diverse Is Your Community?
Diversity, oddly enough, has become something of a controversial topic. How diverse is your community, however you define community?
Share why if you wish.