of happiness and this is this is something the philosopher joseph razz has suggested is that freedom has to exist within boundaries because if there's no boundaries there's no freedom right the boundaries are necessary in order for you to cultivate relationships with other people that make you free and happy living in a fully chaotic society in which no one's rights are guaranteed by any military institutions and in which there's no support for the social institutions that allow for the possibility of human flourishing and happiness is not freedom it is in fact slavery whether it is to the chaos around you or whether it is to the the drives that you find in your own brain subjectively changing from day to day but says it's columnist for the new york times it's good to get rid of these institutions because she had a bad marital experience the the innate narcissism here is truly astonishing even as a child i bristled at the assumptions behind the question that it was just her mom bringing her up it seemed obvious to me then having lived in a two-parent home that was deeply unhappy and dysfunctional that the number of parents around make a working family was arbitrary that people beholden to the rigid mathematics of mother and father and children equal stability were short-sighted ignoring all we know of human interactions and ways we make family throughout human history to believe that one equation would work for us all seemed so simplistic and childish that for much of my young adulthood i simply disregarded it again that sentence is so telling it's such a deeply it truly is a profound philosophical essay this thing in the new york times but not in the way that the author thinks it is when she says to believe one equation would work for us all seemed simplistic and childish no one said marriage works for every single human what we all said is that marriage is an important institution that facilitates the bringing up of the next generation within a stable two-parent household and that is true for the vast majority of humans not for all humans but the converse is not get rid of the institution right she says the equation doesn't work for everybody but the solution to that is not therefore no equation the answer is that's true there are free radicals there are people for whom this does not work and those people we are not forcing them to get married but if society is to get rid of the institutions in favor of a different equation which is no equation then there is no formula for happiness whatsoever and if you believe that you subjectively can create your own level of happiness without any sort of military societal institutions good luck to you and more importantly good luck to the society you've helped to fragment and destroy atomistic individualism is the destruction of society i'm an individualist insofar as i believe that freedom is deeply important that self-definition is a very important aspect of freedom but it is not the only aspect of freedom it is one one among others and some of those others include the civilizing institutions that make you fully human we'll get to more of this in just one moment first if you're in an e-commerce business you know the most agonizing part could be something like responding to where's my package emails or processing returns dealing with expensive shipping charges well URL_TOKEN takes the pain out of shipping by giving you access to deeply discounted shipping options and integrating with the most popular online shopping platforms to make labeling a breeze you can now set yourself up to focus on the good stuff this year by saving time and money on shipping with
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