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Freedom means you may act unless you harm others.
Your default state is permission to live your own life.

Statism flips that logic.
You may act only where permission has been granted.
Everything else is prohibited by default.

If your choices require approval, you are not free.
You are conditionally allowed.

Same actions.
Different foundations.

One system treats adults as owners of their lives.
The other treats adults as subjects who must ask first.

Permission is not freedom.