Zai

Freedom is a concept onto which we project our own desires, creating individualised projections of what freedom should be. There’s a level of consensus but also one of subjectivity and as this intersubjectivity moves and shifts over time it creates new frictions on the dialogue of freedom vs control. Gun rights went from necessary to widely revoked. Marriage equality went from unthinkable to increasingly accepted. It would be interesting to see which of our current core tenets of human rights will change in the next few hundred years. Many people would be tempted to think that our current set of human rights represents some sort of objective truth, but as Yuval Noah Harari puts it these are myths and stories that we create, and thus in the future some new rights are likely to be added and some might feel antiquated like gun rights.