What are you reading? And what part of the reading?
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People may disagree with this statement because freedom is the power to live by your own judgement, which includes the right to choose your own values and the actions by which to achieve them. That includes the right to what you create and the right to choose what to do with it.
Arms race means:
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
