argument for freedom

In chapter 3 of the text, Kant is elaborating on his idea of freedom and what it actually means to be free. To him, being free is untethering ourselves from the earthly tether that bounds us, which are the rules that the government makes to control us. By being free, we are breaking away from those rules and subsequently living on our own rules, which can either, are good or bad. I completely agree with Kant’s idea about freedom. To add, not only rules but also stereotypes as well. Rules aren’t the only ideals that bound us and keep us from being free. In today’s society, racism is a big concept that bounds people from being free. Because of racism and all of the other unethical concepts, it stops people from being what Kant would say is being free.  For example, in certain areas in the United States, there is a high statistic of suicide because people are different. Not everything in the world is the same. Some people are Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, like grape jelly on their French fries, etc; but because of the negative stereotypes, it blocks people from being them and doing actions that ultimately are theirs and not what society wants them to do/say. If they want to be free, in Kant’s point, they must pursue a course of action that is unconditionally truth- that is, truth that is different from our society and all of the things that binds us. Say, for example, they continue to be themselves and go on and live their dreams and do whatever they want. If that means breaking the law, then so be it because they are not bound to nothing but themselves; their limit is only themselves. To go back to Kant’s point, I totally agree that by following your own rules, either good or bad, that is ultimately going to make you free. The rules that bind us like: traffic laws, do no murder, and not running red lights- even though they are in our minds wrong, mainly because the government instilled them in our minds for so long that it becomes second nature to us, they are stopping us from becoming free because it’s stopping our freewill from doing something that it might want to do. So I totally agree with Kant on that view about freedom.