Loftwings and Demons

Been thinking about the term freedom, and how it's an unfortunately vague and fraught term which is often used to make false equivalences. I apologize if I'm just more clumsily reinventing some really well-known philosophy here.  This is by no means an attempt to produce incredibly polished theory, so it's bound to have flaws and gaps in places, but I wanted to hash out these ideas somewhere besides just in my own head. Anyway, I'm thinking that the idea of freedom should really be split up into three general categories: personal autonomy, interpersonal autonomy, and community autonomy.

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