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0:00one of the fundamental conflicts in one
0:02piece is the dual-sided coin of freedom
0:04and Authority a conflict of Epic
0:07Proportions manifesting in Luffy and emu
0:11Luffy symbolizing the Luminous Beacon of
0:13freedom is just opposed by emu the
0:16absolute force of draconian Authority it
0:19is a clash between a corrupt
0:21establishment and the free pirate but
0:24this on its own in my opinion doesn't
0:27tell you the full story not with without
0:30first understanding what Freedom really
0:32is in society there is an almost
0:35infinite number of definitions for the
0:37word freedom and thus by extension
0:41Authority especially in America where
0:43most of my viewers reside talk to 100
0:46different Americans and you will get 100
0:49different results as to what freedom is
0:51both conservatives and leftists will
0:53tell you the opposing side is against
0:55freedom for different reasons both sides
0:58will claim that they are fighting
0:59against The Establishment and doing what
1:01is ultimately best for the Common Man a
1:04leftist may say that our long being
1:06enslaved shows how one piece is against
1:08the slavery of minorities or just in
1:11general how the government tries to
1:12suppress the minority group of people
1:14trying to rise up thus demonstrating
1:17that the ruling white people are bad and
1:19a conservative May point out how arlong
1:21is somewhat written like a sort of black
1:24supremacist this is made more clear in
1:26the live action as arlong seems to have
1:28some dialogue similar to it humans have
1:32ruled the Seas for far too long looking
1:36down from their I Towers towers built on
1:40the backs of fishmen as far as I'm
1:42concerned both sides are really just
1:45seeing the things that they want to be
1:46seen But lurking between the tapestry of
1:49interconnected and opposing ideas I
1:52think that there's a message that we can
1:54all take away from one piece that is far
1:56more nuanced Universal and Powerful
1:59compared to how most people like to take
2:00it it rises Beyond these partisan
2:03interpretations and beckons us to think
2:05deeper about the implications of our
2:08beliefs to begin our analysis we need to
2:11First establish that one piece isn't a
2:13straightforward story of pirates good
2:16Marines bad in the first few episodes we
2:19see a good pirate in Luffy a bad pirate
2:22in alvida and a good Marine in Kobe and
2:25a bad Marine in ax hand Morgan the
2:29series SE seems perfectly split down the
2:31middle a complete bifurcation that
2:34presents a distinct Duality on both
2:36sides most of the conflicts the straw
2:39hats encounter are due to missteps with
2:41other Pirates this is showing us that
2:44there are bad pirates but we know that
2:47the World At Large is under the corrupt
2:49regime of the world government but we
2:51also know that there will likely be some
2:53marines that will help Luffy take it
2:55down this shows us the flip side it
2:57shows us how there are good and bad
2:59members on the side of
3:01authority I don't necessarily think that
3:04one piece is about the balance between
3:05freedom and Authority at least in the
3:08aoral way it's commonly understood but
3:10rather it is an acknowledgement of
3:12objective Excellence wherever you are
3:15and how that should be strived for it
3:17goes beyond labels and tells you to be a
3:19good person wherever you find yourself
3:22situated you can say that one piece is
3:24against rich people but people like Sabo
3:26and Viv exist you can say that one piece
3:29is Pro pirate and anti-authority but
3:32then you have people like GARP who are
3:34good characters upholding Authority and
3:37on the flip side we have people like
3:38crocodile Moria and basically every
3:41antagonist luff is fought who represents
3:43a bad pirate the series in its depth
3:47defies simplistic categorizations and
3:49urges us to strive for excellence
3:52irrespective of our
3:53Circumstance the consistent through line
3:56is that one piece doesn't care about
3:57your label and is basically just an
3:59advocate for you not being a bad person
4:02slavery is wrong whether it is done by
4:05humans or by fishmen abusing power is
4:08wrong whether it is done by Marines or
4:10Pirates one piece isn't saying that
4:13piracy is great or that absolute Justice
4:16is the ideal one piece correctly
4:18identifies that people have different
4:20inclinations and have different desires
4:23it astutely recognizes that individuals
4:26with varying inclinations strive for
4:29different goals
4:30moreover one piece recognizes the
4:32diversity concomitant to different
4:34societies run by different groups of
4:36people hereditary monarchy and democracy
4:39are two opposing ways to run a country
4:42yet both are shown in negative and
4:44positive lights Vivi and Mos both beefed
4:49their positions through Birthright but
4:51so did the celestial dragons drum Island
4:54elected Dalton to be their leader
4:56democratically but Crocodile by inciting
4:59a civil War wanted to turn the people
5:01against the king and thus in a way use
5:04the rule of the people to commence a
5:06deleterious course of
5:08events this idea of labels and status
5:11not really mattering was right there in
5:13front of us in Shell toown when Zoro was
5:16hanging from his cross he states that he
5:18doesn't care what people think about him
5:21because he knows that what he did was
5:23good and thus he doesn't even have one
5:26iota of regret this is probably why Zoro
5:29is is so easily able to switch between
5:31being a pirate Hunter and being a pirate
5:34proper the labels don't mean anything to
5:37him he just does what he thinks is right
5:39in order to get what he wants while
5:41protecting those against the morally
5:43bankrupt forces of the world even within
5:46the world government within the
5:48celestial dragons there are a handful of
5:51token good guys like the donkey Hotes
5:54aside from of course doflamingo this
5:57shows that at every juncture of One
5:59Piece there lies pockets of either
6:01positive or negative morality this
6:04accentuates the ultimate negligence of
6:06labels within the tapestry of the one
6:08piece world all of this ties into the
6:11famous speech by do flamingo in Marine
6:13Ford I think it's worth quoting in full
6:16Pirates are evil Marines are righteous
6:20these terms have always changed
6:21throughout the course of history kids
6:23who have never seen peace and kids who
6:26have never seen War have different
6:27values those who stand at the top
6:30determine what's wrong and what's right
6:33this very place is a neutral ground
6:36justice will prevail you say of course
6:38it will those who win the war become the
6:43Justice history is written by The
6:45Victors whoever is in charge determines
6:48for society what is right and wrong this
6:51isn't to say that there is no objective
6:53right and wrong it is to say that what
6:56Society tends to think is moral is Lar L
6:59justified by whatever is legal and
7:02illegal and whatever is promoted and
7:04vilified by the whims of those who run
7:06Society doof Flamingo himself is someone
7:09who took Power by force and exalted
7:11himself as the king the kuki were once
7:14beloved but after kaido took over
7:17children were taught that the kuki were
7:19enemies while the adults old enough to
7:21remember the truth were forced to remain
7:23quiet given a long enough hypothetical
7:25time period nobody would know the truth
7:28and C would be seen as the irrefutable
7:30king of wano One Piece isn't concerned
7:34about your particular label it is
7:35concerned about who you are as a human
7:38being King pirate Marine World
7:42Government they all have good and bad
7:45individuals within their factions some
7:48people have been given more of a right
7:50to disseminate their truth onto the
7:52population but one piece constantly
7:54highlights the fact that what is
7:56considered right and just isn't
7:58determined by who who was in power but
8:00rather a properly adjusted moral
8:03conscience so given the fact that many
8:05countries in one piece are run by a
8:07monarch this highlights the fact that
8:09power and authority are necessary and
8:12ought to be bestowed on those virtuous
8:15enough to properly lead there's a Bible
8:17verse that relates to this that's pretty
8:19relevant it says that it is easier for a
8:22camel to go through the eye of a needle
8:24than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
8:26of God now whether you believe in heaven
8:28or hell or God is irrelevant the idea is
8:32still Universal influence and affluence
8:35bere the presence of perfected virtue
8:38fans the Flames of our lower
8:40inclinations and we'll be talking more
8:42about this perfected virtue later in the
8:44video but that aside if someone without
8:47virtue is in power one piece highlights
8:50that it is up to those few free Souls
8:52who possess such bravery and moral
8:54character to revolt against the system
8:57to revolt against those with status in
9:00order to give everyone else a chance of
9:02Freedom one piece constantly teaches
9:05that just because someone has Authority
9:07doesn't necessarily mean that we have to
9:09dogmatically obey them following a code
9:12of justice just because an authority
9:14told you to do so doesn't mean it's
9:17right Oda constantly pushes the idea
9:20that characters ought to think for
9:21themselves and this is ostensibly close
9:24in line with existentialist philosophy
9:26the straw hats live how they want to
9:28live and they do what they want to do
9:30they have no set moral code they don't
9:33belong to an authority and they are not
9:35beholden to the constraints of any
9:37larger faction they operate on their own
9:40whims if they feel like helping someone
9:43it is not because of altruism or some
9:45kind of Hero's code but because they
9:47just so happen to feel like it in the
9:49case of wapple it's the other way around
9:52Luffy punched him because he thought he
9:54was annoying it just so happened that
9:56wapple was also the antagonist and on
9:58the other hand sometimes they choose to
10:01help people merely because some
10:03character gave Luffy food at some point
10:06despite all of this I don't really
10:08believe that one piece espouses a truly
10:10existentialist philosophy to give you a
10:13brief summary of what existentialist
10:14philosophy is something that will just
10:17work for this video existentialism is a
10:20philosophy coined by people like John
10:22Paul sart and retroactively attributed
10:24to people like n it believes that the
10:27goal of life is to determine for
10:29yourself what you deem is good and
10:31pursue that the existentialist Mantra
10:35existence perceives Essence encapsulates
10:37this philosophy it means that we do not
10:40have a given essence or purpose in our
10:42lives it asserts then that what defines
10:45us what gives us our Essence is our
10:48choices morals actions and a meaning we
10:52personally ascribe onto them I don't
10:55actually believe that this is what one
10:56piece is saying or if it is that's only
10:59partly the case I think this is a rather
11:02surface level and rudimentary analysis
11:04of One Piece One Piece constantly
11:07critiques the idea of unfettered freedom
11:10primarily through Blackbeard with this
11:12in mind I interpret freedom in one piece
11:15as being your ability to choose your own
11:18path of flourishing with respect to what
11:20is right and wrong it presents the idea
11:23that udonia or the condition of human
11:26flourishing can be achieved at any wi
11:28multi multitude of factions within
11:30Society if you want to be a pirate and
11:33compete do that if you want to be a
11:35marine do that if you want to be a
11:38general citizen do that one piece
11:41celebrates the validity of diverse paths
11:44and shows how they are all paths to
11:46happiness for different people of
11:48different callings just be a pirate who
11:50competes against other Pirates and not
11:53one who harms the Innocents because that
11:55would violate the way that they want to
11:57flourish one p emphatically underscores
12:00the idea that true Freedom hinges on
12:03pursuing one's aspirations without
12:05causing harm to the Innocents the type
12:07of philosophy that one piece espouses is
12:10one that acknowledges that we exist for
12:12the beneficence of other people kings
12:14are given Authority with the assumption
12:16that they will ensure the largest amount
12:18of benefit for the most number of people
12:21one piece acknowledges that there is
12:23power that exists and given that fact it
12:26should be good people who are in power
12:28ruler should be the torchbearers of
12:30virtue leading Society to better places
12:33with each step what is good for the
12:35people will provide the optimal way for
12:37everyone to reach their own personal
12:39fulfillment and happiness this holds
12:42true once again whether you choose the
12:45path of a marine pirate or an ordinary
12:48citizen this may sound like I'm saying
12:51that one piece Echoes the Contemporary
12:53Mantra of do whatever you want as long
12:55as it doesn't hurt other people but that
12:58is not only logically impossible it is
13:02again a water down explanation of what
13:04one piece is actually saying first of
13:07all I find it hard to believe that
13:09anyone actually believes that Mantra I
13:12hope that we are all against slavery and
13:14believe that it should be fought against
13:17even if you wouldn't go out of your way
13:18to physically fight against it you
13:21probably still would wave a magical wand
13:23to remove it or press a magical slavery
13:26eraser button if given the chance
13:29even though if you're living in the
13:30Western World at least it has no impact
13:33on you evil exists in the world should
13:36we not care about it even if it doesn't
13:38directly impact us I hope so assuming
13:42you would press this button that means
13:44you care about things even when they
13:45don't directly impact you secondly we
13:49can't actually separate ourselves from
13:51the world the stoic philosopher Marcus
13:53aelius insightfully observed that what
13:55is bad for the individual is bad for
13:58society
13:59and thus vice versa is also the truth he
14:02said what is not good for the Beehive
14:05cannot be good for the bees therefore
14:08what is good for the bees has to be good
14:10for the Beehive if we damage our
14:12community we ultimately damage ourselves
14:16Justice then is our ability to benefit
14:19the hive the flourishing of the bee is
14:22intrinsically linked to the obligations
14:23he has to The Hive individual and
14:26communal Prosperity are inter twined
14:29that's the problem with existentialism
14:31in general it assumes we are all
14:33atomized individuals but no our
14:37flourishing ought to in part be with the
14:40acknowledgement of our duties to other
14:42people that I think May more accurately
14:46convey what one piece is saying in its
14:48complete
14:49analysis I think this quote accurately
14:51represents what one piece's freedom is
14:53about Pope John Paul II said Freedom
14:57consists not in doing what we like but
14:59in having the right to do what we ought
15:02Freedom opens you up to living the kind
15:04of virtuous life of your calling freedom
15:07is not merely the unrestricted ability
15:09to pursue personal desires but rather
15:12signifies the privilege to embark on The
15:14Virtuous path aligned to one's true
15:16calling if you strive for riches use
15:19your money not abusively or
15:21ostentatiously but altruistically if you
15:24are to live a quiet life do so
15:26graciously if you are to be competitive
15:29compartmentalize that drive towards
15:31other similarly competitive people and
15:33try to flourish there Channel your
15:35competitive Spirit towards others who
15:37share your ambition Foster an
15:39environment where all can flourish in
15:41their own distinctive way that is really
15:45the truest form of Freedom the freedom
15:47for everyone to flourish in their own
15:50way the freedom for each individual to
15:53thrive according to their unique path to
15:56elaborate on what I said about Pirates
15:58notice how pirates live by their own
16:00terms and fight the way they want in
16:02Luffy's fight against katak Curry the
16:05siblings cheat and this results in kak
16:07curry dealing a major blow against Luffy
16:10but Luffy doesn't complain he knows that
16:13scheming and cheating is fair game in a
16:16battle of pirates in the world of
16:18pirates everyone is pushing to the top
16:21and the weak die off even the word
16:23hockey literally means ambition and
16:26aspiration with the chief among all
16:28Hockey being conquerors hockey literally
16:31the ambition to conquer this is in stark
16:34contrast to the world of the land as
16:36your status Birthright Etc don't mean
16:40anything all that matters is your own
16:43ability your own will and your own Merit
16:47the Pirates sign up for this world and
16:49they don't complain about it look at how
16:52in the foxy Arc the way Zoro responds to
16:55Chopper Chopper after temporarily being
16:58put on Foxy's crew complains that he
17:01only wanted to be on Luffy's crew but
17:03Zoro stoically and sharply Clips his
17:06wings of discontent Zoro explains to him
17:08that he chose this life he accepted the
17:11risks concomitant to such as he joined
17:13the crew the world of piracy is
17:16apathetic no one is going to show you
17:18any
17:19sympathy now before you get ahead of
17:21yourself and believe that in one piece
17:24the world of pirates is aoral I will
17:26argue that in the narrative itself there
17:29is still clearly a correct and incorrect
17:31way to do things and that is clearly
17:34demonstrated in the contrast between
17:35Luffy and
17:37Blackbeard this is seen in how he
17:39orchestrated Marine Ford killed
17:41Whitebeard and stole his fruit on the
17:44other hand Luffy wants to play fairly
17:46and earn his progress most notable
17:49examples being when he chose not to take
17:51advantage of kak Curry's fatigue in
17:53their fight and when he demanded not to
17:55know the secrets of the world from rley
17:57two of defense Blackbeard most certainly
17:59would have taken advantage of Blackbeard
18:02also tends to see things as a means to
18:04an end his crew is full of tools
18:07designed to give him the best chance of
18:09being py King Luffy's crew is made of
18:12people he just so happened to like Luffy
18:15enjoys the journey and Adventure towards
18:17becoming pirate king Blackbeard only
18:20cares about the destination so even
18:22though the Pirates don't seem to be
18:24bothered by immoral Behavior like the
18:26common man would be oh is still
18:29communicating the idea that there is a
18:31right and wrong way to even be a pirate
18:34in one piece the strong are the rightful
18:36rulers at the top who use their power
18:38magnanimously for the good of the world
18:41everyone choosing how they want to live
18:43without the presence of virtue results
18:46in moral Anarchy where everyone's
18:48capricious desires V to claim their spot
18:50at the top it is for this reason that
18:53Oda portrays the lawlessness of piracy
18:55as being separated from the lawful
18:57regular life in wano Luffy and Zoro are
19:01extremely upset at the food not being
19:03shared this is because the civilians are
19:06not Pirates and they are not vying for a
19:08place at the top thus subjecting them to
19:11unfair punishment is immoral when the
19:14competitive world of pirates harms the
19:17peaceful world of the Common Man it is
19:20bad Alexander soulon said the defense of
19:24individual rights has reached such
19:26extremes as to make society as a whole
19:28defenseless it is time in the west to
19:32defend not so much human rights as human
19:35obligations destructive and
19:37irresponsible Freedom has been granted
19:39boundless space Society appears to have
19:42little defense against the abyss of
19:44human decadence such as for example
19:47misuse of Liberty from moral violence
19:50against young people such as Motion
19:52Pictures full of pornography crime and
19:55horror life organized legalistically has
19:58thus shown its inability to defend
20:00itself against the corrosion of evil to
20:03balance Order and Chaos necessitates
20:06personal discipline you cannot rely
20:09solely on the law for your moral
20:11formation you need to properly assess
20:13what is right and wrong and Order
20:15yourself towards that we need legal and
20:18personal obligations from my analysis of
20:22One Piece what would ultimately be the
20:24ideal is the government having Liberties
20:26to take care of the poor such as what
20:28was shown in drum Island when the
20:30citizens didn't have free health care
20:33but there's also the idea that we
20:34ourselves must have personal order as to
20:37not misuse our liberties Liberty should
20:40not give us license to licentiousness
20:42but for our own flourishing there needs
20:45to be some personal responsibility in
20:47order for society to be free souls in
20:50East knew this and I believe that this
20:52is what is conveyed in one piece to be
20:54free you need to be in control of your
20:57life to be in control of your life
21:00requires discipline therefore as the
21:03best-selling Navy officer Joo willink
21:05would say discipline equals freedom but
21:09this idea actually has its roots going
21:11back far before Joo willing in the Bible
21:15it says whoever sins is a slave to sin
21:18Aristotle has talked about this and even
21:20the founding fathers talked about it
21:22Thomas Jefferson James Madison and
21:24Benjamin Franklin among many more said
21:27that the con stitution was only valid in
21:29so far as we are a moral and disciplined
21:32Society along with other quotes ringing
21:34the general sentiment of virtue being a
21:37prerequisite for authentic
21:39Freedom Benjamin Franklin said only a
21:42virtuous people are capable of Freedom
21:45Thomas Jefferson said the price of
21:47freedom is eternal vigilance James
21:50Madison said the advancement and
21:52diffusion of knowledge is the only
21:54guardian of true Liberty the ideal
21:57society would have moral obligations in
21:59combination with legal
22:01protections we all know how one piece is
22:03great at foreshadowing right well I
22:05don't think we've actually visualized
22:07the extent of it so here's a neat little
22:09graphic I made each line represents a
22:11data point and the white bars represent
22:13a chapter Oda truly is the best writer
22:17except this isn't actually Oda this
22:19represents the
22:2163,9 cross references in the Bible these
22:24books were written over the course of
22:25thousands of years and they have over 40
22:28different authors not to mention tons of
22:30specific prophecies that were
22:31archaeologically verified it's Christmas
22:33time so I'll give you one the Book of
22:35Micah was written in the 8th Century BC
22:38so it's roughly 600 years before Christ
22:40was born because as we all know Christ
22:42split the timeline in half we went from
22:44pre-time skip to post-time skip when
22:46Christ was born yet it accurately
22:48predicts that Jesus would be born in
22:49Bethlehem makes you wonder who the
22:51greatest author really is someone should
22:53present that author in a way that this
22:55audience would really like buy my book
22:58anyways back to the
23:02video Luffy is the embodiment of virtue
23:05perhaps not in an objective literal way
23:08but in a philosophical Aristotelian and
23:11tomisic way he is he just so happens to
23:14be virtuous not through effort but
23:17because of what naturally comes to him
23:19Aristotle has four stages of virtue as
23:22described in his NEC kamakan ethics they
23:25are viciousness incontinence continence
23:29and virtue The Vicious person does
23:31something wrong and Revels even enjoys
23:34doing the wrong they see no issue with
23:37the wrong action they know what moral
23:40standards there are they know what laws
23:42exist and why they exist but they simply
23:45choose to ignore it for his or her
23:47selfish gain incontinence refers to a
23:50lack of self-control this is when
23:52someone knows that they should be doing
23:54something but lacks such Herculean
23:56strength to do it or they know that they
23:58should not be doing something and lack
24:01the stoic self-control to abstain he or
24:04she is not pleased with the decision
24:06made but they were too weak to choose
24:08the correct decision next is continence
24:12this is the one people usually think is
24:14the end it is where you possess the
24:16stoic self-control to abstain or the
24:19Herculean strength to do something but
24:21it is only through the incorporation of
24:23incredible grit you do the right thing
24:27but it is a struggle for you it required
24:30great effort and while you may have
24:32enjoyed the end result you did not enjoy
24:34the process the last is virtue this is
24:38the Glad Act of moral character you
24:41choose to do good not because it is your
24:43duty but because it aligns with your
24:45character this spectrum of States
24:48delineates how human beings can be more
24:50or less well formed in their estimation
24:52and pursuit of what is good the vicious
24:55person is malformed the virt virtuous
24:58person is well formed the continent and
25:01incontinent oscillate in the seams this
25:04range of options helps clarify the goal
25:07of human life man is made for more than
25:09merely following the rules as one piece
25:12demonstrates if such legalistic rules
25:15are in congruent to proper human
25:16flourishing it is actually good to
25:19disobey them man is made for the good to
25:22cultivate a knack for spontaneous action
25:25toward that end to be inclined to
25:27towards the good as if by some kind of
25:29visceral nature man develops such a
25:32faculty for living well and choosing
25:34well that the opposing thought is not
25:37able to lay claim on their conscious not
25:40even for a moment in one of Luffy's most
25:43important lines he says that he's not a
25:45hero but a pirate a hero shares food
25:48with everyone but a pirate keeps it to
25:51himself the specific words and example
25:54Luffy uses is questionable because as we
25:57know that's kind of what he doesn't
25:58wanto but the idea is right in line with
26:01The Virtuous character defined by
26:03Aristotle Luffy doesn't do things
26:06because he feels some kind of moral
26:08obligation to do them he simply does
26:10them because it is what feels right to
26:12him at the time a hero does things he
26:15doesn't want to do for the betterment of
26:17other people a pirate doesn't care about
26:20such obligations and just abides by his
26:22own capricious whims it just so happens
26:25that everything Luffy feels right to do
26:28happens to be the correct Choice he
26:31effortlessly is a good person it's a
26:34wonderful thing that Luffy just so
26:36happens to choose the right thing that
26:39is the difference between being a hero
26:41and being a virtuous pirate Luffy is
26:44such a force of raw character that he
26:47doesn't even have any thinking bubbles
26:50everything he thinks comes right out of
26:52his mouth he is in the most
26:54unembellished sense a primal paragon G
26:57of Aristotelian virtue he lacks even the
27:01ephemeral transient transitory point of
27:04being inclined towards anything other
27:07than such this freedom is so attractive
27:10that it inspires others to be free Luffy
27:13is so completely unbridle free having
27:16such an optimism of the will that he
27:18demonstrates to others what it truly
27:20means to be free therefore they find in
27:24him the reflection of the possibility of
27:26their own freedom he is not just setting
27:29people free but acting in a man that is
27:31so unabashedly free that others are
27:34inspired to become free by witnessing
27:37him perhaps this is part of what it
27:39means to be pirate king as we know Luffy
27:42doesn't necessarily want to be the
27:44strongest but the freest man in the
27:46world someone who is so free so
27:49authentically and virtuously free that
27:52as being the king he inspires the rest
27:55of the world to think and act in such a
27:57free way way as him to reflect a global
28:00mirror perhaps a reflection seen on the
28:02very seas in which we travel on the
28:05entire world Illuminating for everyone
28:08what it means to be free it is true that
28:10the impetus of Luffy's moral actions are
28:13the fact that he just so happens to be
28:15friends with people on the islands but
28:17then you have to reconsider how Luffy
28:19just so happens to be friends with the
28:21right people at the right time it is
28:25once again due to his childlike and good
28:28nature Aristotle and St Thomas aquinus
28:31insist that a moral life is to go beyond
28:34restraint or discipline virtue is a kind
28:37of thing akin to a musician who loves
28:39her art she needs no parental oversight
28:42she merely loves to play the instrument
28:44for its own sake a steady ration of
28:47scales and ATT tudes reveals to her more
28:49of the instrument's beauty and she grows
28:52to continually and gladly want more of
28:54it joyfully moving from modest pce
28:57pieces to Arrangements of increasing
28:59technicality for all intents and
29:02purposes this is a virtuous musician in
29:05the Aristotelian
29:06sense this is really the truest form of
29:09Freedom a freedom that encompasses
29:12genuine Joy regardless of the
29:14circumstances or junctures of one's
29:16particular life in this profound state
29:19of Freedom individuals find the path to
29:22their own flourishing contributing to a
29:24harmonious world where everyone has the
29:26opportunity to to experience true and
29:29Lasting happiness perhaps there's a
29:31reason Luffy is constantly portrayed as
29:34a force of Joy along with freedom
29:37perhaps the two are necessary components
29:39of each other when fully realized doing
29:42well choosing well and embodying such
29:45virtuous traits is the true Joy Of Life
29:49virtuous interactions Foster prosperous
29:51relations which allow such Joy if one
29:54possesses such virtuous character they
29:57will will do what is right regardless of
29:59the law as that is what is constantly
30:01highlighted as being a major part of one
30:03piece's philosophy the more virtuous a
30:06man is the Freer he is to gladly and
30:10reflexively choose virtue is the summit
30:13of human
30:14existence to be clear once again I am
30:18not saying that one piece is explicitly
30:21espousing the idea of being a virtuous
30:23character I am saying that the ideals of
30:26Freedom that it espouses necessitates a
30:29virtuous character and as such this
30:32seems to be the implied message for my
30:34reading even if it is scantly
30:36acknowledged this is the ultimate
30:38message of conveying the negatives of
30:40overreaching piracy and overreaching
30:42Authority the only way to reconcile
30:44these is to create a truly free Nation
30:47for people to cultivate the highest
30:49level of virtue we need virtuous Pirates
30:52virtuous leaders and virtuous citizens
30:56thus freedom is is the prerequisite to
30:58Virtue and virtue is the condition on
31:00which human flourishing rests
31:03interestingly enough there's actually a
31:05secret goal that Luffy has Beyond
31:07becoming the king of the Pirates and the
31:09freest man in the world I'm not actually
31:11saying or even predicting that this is
31:13his goal but this does seem to imply
31:16although in a somewhat weak sense that
31:19Luffy and by extension Oda see something
31:21Beyond free choice to be the ultimate
31:24good that there is something more
31:26important having the ability to choose
31:28what you want don't take this as my key
31:31point or anything I just noticed this
31:33and I thought it would be interesting to
31:35mention that aside all of this is great
31:39substantive and intelligent but it is
31:41incomplete Alexis dville said Liberty
31:45cannot be established without morality
31:47nor morality without faith if you would
31:50like to know why I think we need a
31:52society grounded in a proper moral truth
31:55and why that Foundation of Truth best
31:57Works through the inculcation of virtue
31:59bestowed onto Us by the Christian God
32:02and why the biblical worldview is the
32:04best one true foundation that exists you
32:07can read my book muscular Christianity a
32:10case for Spiritual and physical fitness
32:13particularly chapter 5 and 7 and with
32:16all that being said don't forget to like
32:17comment and subscribe thank you for
32:20watching I catch you all next time peace

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