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What does it mean?
People who have lacked control define freedom negatively as escape rather than positive self-determination.
In plain terms
If you have never had control, freedom just looks like breaking away.
What can you take from it?
Lack of control shapes how freedom is defined.

Where it applies

  • leaving restrictive environments
  • recovering from dependency

Putting it to work

  • redefining personal autonomy

Questions to consider

  • Is freedom about escape or about building?

Another view

It reduces freedom to escape rather than creation.

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