Yes, absolutely, you do have the right to choose how to live your life, how to dress and speak and the food you now choose to eat [believe me, if I have a choice between a prime burger or a kale salad, I know which one I’ll gobble up in a heart-beat], but the point is that ‘Freedom’ is not just political propaganda, that you do have to embrace it, and give others the right to practice it in return [and no, this is not an invitation for you to tell me that (a) you know better than them … or (b) you do this ‘for their own good’ … or (c) rank has its privilege … to all this I’ll point out that we’ve left the cotton fields behind long ago.
But to come back to a different insight - both Intolerance and Judgment eat up your energies, making you angry, disappointed, rigid, frustrated … and ultimately giving you some horrible terminal disease [come on, you’ve all heard of the body-mind-spirit connection … so yes, by nurturing negative thoughts and emotions you create a ‘disease field’ which will manifest in physical reality … and will spread out to contaminate others around you]
Ok, so what can you do about it ?
Easy, whenever you have a negative thought or feeling about something or someone - stop - take a breath, consciously think of a positive, uplifting image [a flower / sunset / crystal … whatever says ‘beauty’ to you] … now examine which part of you had this reaction … and why … who or what taught you to behave this way …
Now you can work with a healer or counselor to clear these energies out of your system ….
And here’s another insight - save for some tragic past life Karma, no one is born with these negative perceptions, they are all taught behaviors …
Now, why would somebody do that to you ….
Or, you can read all this and think that I’m full of bs, and you don’t have to do anything about any of this [after all ‘might is right’, right !?] …
To this I’ll simply point out that Karma is a bitch … and even death does not exempt us from it … just remember that "whatever you put out will come back to you threefold ..."
Life can be a joyous, glorious, fulfilling, exciting adventure … it is up each of us to make the proper choices … [and that’s Freedom !]