> Knowledge and transparency is oxygen to a democracy
Democracy can wait a week or two when a man is murdered that way
Freedom means also that you have to earn it, if people can't wait to speculate online about things that are still being investigated, they probably don't deserve it.
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What if they waited a bit more before putting Lee Harvey Oswald on the front page of every newspaper? Maybe he would still be alive and we knew a lot more about what really happened.
What if Kennedy assassination happened today, with social media and the "pornography of violence"?
Freedom isn't earned, authority is. Freedom is the default nature of man. Those in power who seek to limit freedom, must earn that right. And it can be quickly withdrawn.
In actual Nature, there is absolutely no default state of freedom. The default is to eat or get eaten. "Freedom" is a social construct.
Just _maybe_ there is some biological underpinning in the form of tit-for-tat based sets of defensive-oriented instincts. (If you don't hurt me, I'll not hurt you.)
The lion cared not for our "freedom to survive", indeed I doubt the lions cared about property rights or the 2nd amendment either.
Freedoms, even when they are freedoms FROM a state entity, only exist because society came together, usually in the form of a state entity, to set norms and expectations and promises.
I agree with the theme of your message, but people won't be educated unless they seek it out themselves beyond just what the media spouts. That is all too sadly very rare.
