The developed individual loves liberty, but enjoys exercising it within a system of rules and laws, some self-imposed, some divine, some social and some are legal in origin.
As a law-giver and law-obeyer, he accepts that there are limits on his behavior. Anything does not go.
Nor is it the other extreme, that the self has degraded into a totalitarian tyrant, sullenly insisting that nothing goes, that no free of action is allowed.
His self as a law-giver would find balance. He would be for more self-control than self-abandonment of any restraints on impulses and temptations.
He would deny that anything goes. He would allow that many things go, but that some things are still disallowed.
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