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Freedom is precisely what all governments (the ones we've experienced all of our lives) have desperately prevented, restricted and oppressed... The state is an evil beast that needs to be put down... Walk away and establish a completely voluntary, alternative system...
Which automatically means you can’t have a lot of the freedoms you might want as long as you live within a group of people. People often blame the “government” for limiting their freedoms, but it’s not really the government it’s the collective will of the community we live in (our neighborhood, city, state, etc.). Governments are just mirrors of the people they represent.
The truth is, everything comes with risks—it's all about how you handle them. Take when I first bought my yacht: I was so unfamiliar with it that I nearly paid dearly for my freedom with hefty repair bills. Luckily, a friend sent me a beginner's guide to yacht ownership, which helped me avoid that pitfall.