Thread by @SinanovicErmin

"Dictatorship is immoral even when it prohibits a sin, democracy is moral even when it permits it. Morality is inseparable from freedom. Only a free behavior is a moral behavior."

Alija Izetbegović (d.2003), Bosnian President

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@Shanfaraa @naderalihashemi @AkyolinEnglish

"By negating freedom, and with it a possibility of choice, dictatorship in its very premises contains a negation of morality. Hence, in spite of the appearances, dictatorship and religion are mutually exclusive."

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"Just like in the spirit-body dilemma religion always chooses spirit, so will the choice between will and behavior, between intention and deed, always opt for will and intention, regardless of the result or the consequence."

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"In religion a deed is worthless without intention, i.e., without the possibility or freedom to do or not to do. Just like the forced hunger is not fasting, a forced good deed is not good, and is considered worthless from a religious point of view."

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"That is why freedom of choice, the ability to do or not do something, to abide or to violate, is an absolute pre-condition for any religion and any morality."

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"And that is why the destruction of this choice, through physical force in a dictatorship or through indoctrination in an utopia, means its very negation. It follows from this that any truly humane society must be a society of free individuals."

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