Not appropriate for a soldier?

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Graham has rightly raised the question of 'freedom and individuality': this might not be the forum to comment-but all too often there is a contradiction innate in such an expression

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The joke being that on occasion to defend those freedoms, it is necessary to accept some limitation of them.

So always there is a struggle by some means or other to defend freedom: it might be with The Continental Line of 1777

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But always by whatever means, freedom must be paid for.

James

That's always the struggle individually or globally: your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins.
Not joke but irony. It is also very important to challenge and monitor these limitations. Many of the ones being applied now have little to do with resolving the issues and more with preparing a controlling authority. Any challenge becomes a challenge to patriotism which, as you know, is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I don't know what the Continental line is but the other examples are part of the ebb and flow of the balance of power. I would question some and agree with others. In any case, the review is worth the exercise.

Back to the subject at hand. It is unfortunate that Ackwell has been slighted in this way but every movement forward has a hook pulling us back, but now we get into too much of a philosophical discussion that doesn't help him much.