Lindsay McMahon

What, Lindsay, is the difference between liberty and freedom?

They seem like they would be synonyms, right?

Exactly.

This word arbitrary is a good bonus word.

That means based on random choice or personal whim rather than on a reason or system, right?

So that arbitrary decisions can't be made that aren't clear and go through the proper systems.

Such a good point, right?

We use that term very generally.

Yes, about the freedoms we have as a citizen in the country that we live in, but also randomly like your freedom to choose the flexible schedule, something like that, right?

So freedom doesn't always have that bigger blanket meaning.

Exactly, right?

Yes, Americans, we do value liberty, but a lot of people around the world do as well.

This is an interesting conversation starter.

So we're going to give you some phrases that you could use to spark a really interesting conversation with the people that you know and are

able to chat with.

Yeah, definitely.

Right.

And I agree.

It's probably not that you're not going to walk up to someone and ask this out of the blue, but if you've kind of

gone over the small talk a little bit and caught up with someone about what they're doing in life and their job this might be a really interesting conversation to be like especially depending on what's happening politically where you are this might be on people's minds they might want to talk about this well that's what i was going to say aubrey that's a great point most of the time these conversations these more existential conversations are going to follow from a conversation about politics there was a current event everyone saw it people have comments but then