The way I like to think about it, freedom and virtue are partners. In order for there to be true virtue, it needs to be a free choice and we need to be able to choose bad. But just because we have both options available to us doesn’t mean one isn’t right and the other wrong. We do own ourselves, but that comes with a responsibility to govern ourselves widely and choose to do good, rather than bad.
The way I like to think about it, freedom and virtue are partners. In order for there to be true virtue, it needs to be a free choice and we need to be able to choose bad. But just because we have both options available to us doesn’t mean one isn’t right and the other wrong. We do own ourselves, but that comes with a responsibility to govern ourselves widely and choose to do good, rather than bad.