The 3L path to freedom

• Freedom in society will be achieved when all laws globally align with the Legal Principle, with all people equally adhering to this law without exception.
• Such freedom is the prerequisite for peace, but not enough to achieve 3L’s vision of peace on earth.

Definition

• Like the word ‘peace’, ‘freedom’ has multiple meanings but they can also be broadly categorised under ‘external freedom’ and ‘internal freedom’:
  • External freedom: the absence of aggressing in society. This is the focus of 3L’s Legal Principle.
  • Internal freedom: the absence of identification with personal problems like worries about the future, accepting the present without judgment, and not being impeded by past conditioning.

Entitlement is not compatible with freedom

• 3L does not define freedom as entitlement to things by forcing others to provide them.
• Such entitlements are known as positive rights - they generally require a breach of the Legal Principle.
• We might wish to be on an elite football team that pays huge compensation but such options are unavailable to those without the ability or will required to be voluntarily accepted.
• Forcing equality of outcomes is based on the flawed idea that ‘two wrongs make a right’ - it is the road to hell paved with good intentions.