An interesting article, Virginia, and you are raising the question of freedom and equal rights.
These paragraphs are illustrating some of the reflections of the author of the article about North Korean Sergent Oh and his flight towards "freedom":
" For it has become fashionable, on both left and right, to downplay or ignore or deprecate the idea of freedom, to blame individualism, self-determination, and choice for inequality, pollution, corruption, immorality, decline, and other tragic aspects of the human condition. The fact that all of these pathologies flourish in autocratic, socialist, and communist societies
as well as in our own seemingly escapes the notice of the intellectual critics of freedom."
"It's the same old battle. We met it under the name of
Hitlerism; we met it under the name of Kaiserism; and we have met it back through the ages in the name of every conqueror that has set upon a course of
establishing his rule over mankind."
Sadly enough, history tells since long that totalitarianism, theocracy and fanatism are the very basis of "unfreedom", whatever the system, and that revolutions, as much as wars, generate, in most cases, despots, terror, crimes and oppression.
But freedom has limits, as soon as your ambitions or privileges violate the very existence of "your next", and it involves also "moral" and "material" responsibilities, proper education, duties, respect for others and for oneself, the readiness to learn further, compassion, ...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cui-bono/201104/freedom-and-control
N.B.:
By the way, they seem to forget about the women's conditions - as ever ...
