What is the Price of Freedom?

You could tweet about the price of freedom as you watch, say, protesters taking to the streets of Hong Kong and crossed the line with violence.

Or you could ask our two feathered friends here who have much more limited freedom albeit well fed and protected, and understand the meaning of true freedom outside the cage.

As you are held hostage-like by Operation Covid-19, you might also amuse yourself as you draw a plausible parallel with Stockholm syndrome.

For recapitulation, this is Wikipedia's take on Stockholm syndrome: "This term was first used by the media in 1973 when four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. The hostages defended their captors after being released and would not agree to testify in court against them. Though it was noted that in this case, the police were perceived to have acted with little care for the hostages safety, providing an alternative reason for their unwillingness to testify. Stockholm syndrome is paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments that captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards the captors."

The size of freedom is relative and limited by degree. For example, we are earthbound until we start to colonise Mars, and within each country we are free to the extent of what is not prohibited by law, beliefs and social norms.

The price of freedom only makes sense when you know the size of freedom that you have in mind, and other people will then make a collective call on whether what you ask for is reasonable and plausible before they are moved to render support.