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Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
— Jean Rasczak ‧ Starship Troopers
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker presents independent thinking as the only freedom anyone truly possesses, then urges the listener to use it. The emphasis falls on reaching one's own understanding. Freedom here is treated as an active practice of figuring things out, rather than simply receiving someone else's conclusions.
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