December 16, 2024
Collectivity and Freedom
All human activities are partly free and partly controlled by the community because, unlike bees, which follow fixed and immutable instincts, we create our own rules. Indeed, freedoms have limits: it would be quite strange if economic freedoms were the exception, lacking any constraints, and magically always produced the collective good.
It is necessary to recognize that humans act in their own self-interest but also adhere to limits set by the community. Moreover, the most important of these limits are often not even codified.