Also, most of the action-guiding or attention-guiding ideas you cover when you talk about Buddhism are values on my definition, so it would be surprising if you thought they were only used retrospectively.
Yes, generally freedom is good, and not many people would disagree. So are all the other supposed values. E.g. security, which is often claimed to trade off against freedom. So these give little if sny guidance in specific cases.
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But that is why they are called values. If someone values freedom more then security their resulting policy should be different from someone valuing security over freedom.
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I think few if any people value one over the other absolutely. If you take freedom as an absolute, you end up with a de Sadian ethics in which everyone is free to rape and torture whomever they please.
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