They were in luck. Had these rules not mattered or been in place, they would be dead.

The meaning of freedom has been changed or altered and is now what ever beliefs that have been put into our minds by those before us. Which is exactly what has been shown, we will believe that we are free if we are told it because that is what we know it as. 

i would keep my coffee mug too, but not for the reason in which it means more, but in the sense that it is more useful.

they have right to, expecially since a greater number of people beleiving in one common thing vote a certain way and thus laws that have a religious basis are passed.

of course children are not going to live very long if they are not properley cared for and checked for diseases after they are born. They miss a treatment window and are unfortunatly killed by the diseases that could have been cured or even prevented.