The worst kind of slavery abides in thinking you can be freed from your nature, and thinking that you need to be.
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Freedom as a concept is meaningless without boundaries, preferences, choice. Without a nature of your own, those things mean nothing to you.
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you have no nature. Your conditioning/biology are contingent and necessary to operate in the world, but changeable.
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freedom from your personality/body/whatever is about understanding it doesn't actually matter. It isn't important.
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Hm. Not sure if I'm expressing myself poorly or thinking sloppily. I don't really disagree with what you're saying.