This is it. Next up is something else.
So, freedom is awesome. With freedom, you can do anything, right? Wrong. Freedom is awesome, but it's not license to do anything that springs to mind. After all, we live in a complicated world, in the context of a relentlessly advancing entropic arrow. It points in one direction, and anything shining a light cone on any particular event could potentially influence that event. A person may have the ability to drive a monster truck over orphans and pensioners, but doing that will inevitably lead to myriad consequences (most of them unpleasant to all involved, excluding lawyers). And that's responsibility. Understanding and being mindful of consequences is responsibility. Freedom in the absence of responsibility is a meaningless concept. It's action without reason, and ultimately it makes one a slave to circumstance.
That, then, is my final point and conclusion. Freedom without responsibility is meaningless and impotent. Responsibility without freedom is nonsensical and irrelevant. The two concepts are the two sides of a single coin. Nourish one, and the other inevitably flourishes. They can't be seperated.
So, that's it. The longer I went about on this series, the less I liked it. Tomorrow's something different. Not sure what. I'll let you know.
See you tomorrow, orbiters!
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