Thanks Tamer for this - we agree!
Freedom and Liberty are words often and easily spoken, but their true meaning and weight is carried from the deepest essence of our humanity. From the Civil War to WWII, 1,264,000 American soldiers died to protect these words. Many millions more have fought to preserve their freedom and liberty. Today we live in a society where questioning the government or disputing a scientific idea is reacted to with aggression and dealt with oppression. Copernicus once questioned the scientific community of his time by proposing that the earth orbited the sun. Giordano Bruno was burned by holding the same beliefs and questioning the experts at the time. It took Galileo a hundred years to convince the experts that Copernicus’ ideas could be right.
Scientific achievement is conquered by questioning the status quo and being inquisitive, not by conformity and acceptance. We continue to make the same mistakes by vilifying those that inquire, those the don’t accept the norms, those that fight for our freedom and liberty. Many man and women died so we could have our freedom to live and think. Tragically, we forget that historically, as a result of our fear, we’ve given up our security.
No war, no catastrophe, no virus is more important than Freedom and Liberty. That Freedom gives you the right to choose. Not to choose for others.