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How Korean, COVID-Patient 31 Showed a Cruel Face of Selfishness
Sometimes, Freedom Shall Be Controlled For The Greater Good
This is a story I tell all the time to my nieces and nephews. The lessons learned from how selfish one person can be is a great source of morals that both infants and adults can use to label a nasty attitude.
Some people call for freedom in all shapes and shades. It is essential for each individual to practice his and her freedom fully. Here’s the issue with this approach: if your freedom practice is missing those two essential factors, it’s no longer freedom — it’s transpassing to others’ peace of mind territory and, in our case, well-being.
Freedom Pillars
The two factors any freedom conquest needs are:
1- An ethical lense.
2- A society umbrella.
Here’s why the above two are essential:
The Ethical Lens
When our motivation is born solely from our individual desires, that eliminates the sense or others. You no longer see anyone else but yourself, and thus, you don’t care if you seek for the alleged freedom will harm anyone or fall under the ethical standards of right or wrong.
