Are there places where enough people make the moral choice to support as high a standard of living as Norway?
Edit: I mean, it seems you're saying that there are enough good humans to support a nice enough society that we should all have that much free will. But is that what we find in real life?
>I mean, it seems you're saying that there are enough good humans to support a nice enough society that we should all have that much free will. But is that what we find in real life?
I would rather live in a world where I'm literally the only human on the planet willing to help his fellow man than one in which I'm subjected to someone else's personal ideal of how I should live my life. But I'm far more optimistic than that. It's entirely probable that some people will slip through the proverbial cracks, as they do in all systems, but I don't support attempting to right one moral wrong by committing another.
Certain constraints on freedom can actually lead to greater freedoms. As someone mentioned above, there's greater freedom in taking a long break from work or in doing a career change in Norway than there is in the United States.
Where do you draw the line between what we can all agree on and where you start to feel coerced into supporting what you call others' personal view of something?