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In Erich Fromm’s quote, it's hard agreeing towards one option when a person can come up with millions of scenarios for it. Take for example, while typing this a sibling of mine argued against the idea. Ten minutes later, an argument that was filled with a ton of “what if’s” lead to two keywords, can only. “If a man can only obey and not disobey, he is a slave; if he can only disobey and not obey, he is a rebel ( not a revolutionary).” Meaning that is the only thing they are able to do. If the man had the option, that would be a totally different story, but they can only obey what is being said, not the opposite of what the quote states. A man usually has an option towards everything, but when limiting the choice down to what they must do,

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