Free thinking means that you are allowed to think about anything.

Sounds easy? It isn’t.

Thinking about anything also means that you are allowed to be racist.

Or that you question why we spend money on cancer research. What did cancer do wrong? Maybe later we’ll discover that cancer has an important function in nature, and that we have an unhealthy relationship with death.

You are also allowed to have all sexual fantasies, even the ones that are not necessarily pleasant for others. Or for your surroundings, if you are attracted to the same sex.

You are also allowed to disagree with science. I think evolutionary theory is an interesting theory, but nowadays everything gets explained through evolution. Someone learns to control fire? Then we call it cultural evolution.

For a long time I thought the inside of my body was visible. I have feelings, don’t I? If you connect those together, along with your thoughts, then the inside becomes visible by itself.

Or that you doubt hospitals. Healthcare is great, sure, but by taking care of everything we take responsibility away from people themselves. You can now go skiing, tear everything apart, and get operated on. Would you go skiing if there were no hospital?

There are billions of people who cannot think freely. You are stuck in a certain religion, scientific school, cultural class. Before you know it, you say what everyone says and believe what everyone believes.

We live in a time in which everyone is terrified of saying something that might sound stupid.