Why People Hate Freedom, Beauty, and Truth The people around you, including the older generation and your parents, likely live without feeling free. Most have handed over their choices to someone else, ignoring their right to make their own decisions. When you refuse to do the same, it makes their surrender more obvious. If they see your freedom, they must face their own loss of it. Admitting this betrayal is tough; they convinced themselves and tried to convince you to do the same. Your freedom makes them confront their own wrongdoing, hidden behind a false facade of love, which maliciously harms everything it touches. I have seen this upclose and personal. People who wish to see me contribute to a debt refuse to renounce their obligation to the debt. They would rather see me acknowledge the legitimacy of the debt than to acknowledge their ignorant stupidity in ever accepting it as valid. Voltaire once said “Man is free the moment he wishes to be”. You always have a choice of whethe