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Question
What is ‘liberty’ according to the old lady?
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Solution
According to the Russian old lady, liberty is the right to walk in the middle of the road. She is liberty drunk. She wasn’t aware that if the pedestrian chooses to walk down the middle of the road, then the end of such liberty would be universal chaos.
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