Freedom Is Not License by Steve Farrell Freedom and license are not synonyms.
Parents know better.
These parents witness that the widely accepted notion that freedom and moral responsibility are somehow disconnected is at best a delusion instilled by miseducation not experience, and at worse a diabolical lie. The pain they feel, the shipwrecked lives they labor to pick up and reassemble, the incessant pleadings to stubborn short-sighted children, and the endless nights spent sobbing upon their knees, all testify to parents that unrestrained freedom is not freedom at all, but quite often a terrible, miserable slavery. Every act has a natural consequence. Experience, that cruel schoolmaster teaches us that. But it is not as if this idea is lacking in proponents.