somerset maugham proposes via an american character in late victorian germany a two-prong test for whether a society is free: can people live as they please? can people think as they please?
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A simple story: Social conservatives in the America roughly seem to support a German model; social leftists, a French. Consider a third group supporting both flavors of liberty. You might expect them to swing to and fro whenever one mode were ascendant (and more threatening).
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if you cant say it you end up avoiding thinking about it to avoid the pain of suppressing your beliefs all the time :(
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