No matter how strange it may sound, the manifestation of freedom largely limits desires, while the suppression of it incites these desires. And this postulate concerns many spheres of life: relationships, consumption, politics.
From the first years of a child's life, parents learn a simple truth: if something is forbidden, the child will want exactly that, and many times stronger than before the ban. This is the nature of man, and he does not change at all with age. As soon as someone restricts his freedom, this is immediately perceived negatively, up to disagreement and even rebellion. Moreover, the desire to possess the forbidden increases significantly. But one has only to allow a forbidden thing, to provide complete freedom to use it, as this desire disappears somewhere, often - to complete indifference.
the Forbidden fruit is sweet
This phenomenon can be observed in various spheres of life. Politicians can restrict the freedoms of citizens, impose strict laws on them, which lead to massive surveillance, denunciations, and punishments. In these actions, the country's leadership manifests a desire to develop its own rules, prohibit the free-thinking of citizens and subordinate them to their will. But the more the loop of the law of power is tightened, the less freedom people have, the greater their desire to possess this freedom. As a result, the conflict can reach the scale of a revolution. Other examples can be seen in the relationship of people in marriage: no matter how a jealous partner tries to restrict the freedom of his life partner, not letting her out of the house and rolling up scandals, all this will only lead to resistance and parting.
Limiting desire
On the other hand, the desire to exceed reasonable limits does not arise when a person feels free. As soon as the individual gets freedom, it limits his desires. He stops thinking about the subject of desire, since he can get it at any moment without struggle and inhibitions. In the vast majority of cases, the resulting freedom reduces the desire for some action to a minimum. As if the shortage of food in the stores of the Soviet era is being replaced by an abundance of supermarkets of the present. At first, the eyes still run up and the desire to taste a little of everything is strong, but then addiction and detached calmness sets in: freedom of choice leads to unwillingness to make this choice.
In such conditions, a person himself begins to realize the framework of freedom and value them, so as not to be deprived of the opportunity to choose. Self-restraint is the most loyal way of limiting desire, which provides only freedom, but not external laws or rules. It is not for nothing that the democratic system of some countries allows its citizens "excessive freedom" - that is, actions are slightly freer than is customary, so that citizens do not even think about violations in this area.
