A week or so ago an online friend (you know who you are) was relating a conversation he had with someone else- trying to explain that refrigeration systems don't "make cold", they remove heat, and then he mentioned that this is similar to what liberty is.
It isn't so much "something" as a lack of something: liberty is the lack of tyranny, or coercion, or whatever you want to call it.
Why on earth would anyone want "Life, now with added tyranny!"?
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