But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an …

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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies. ✨ Alan Watts (2010). Tao: The Watercourse Way, p.43, Souvenir Press
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