qqp question1: Why do Americans keep saying USA is the land of the free, when people like Charles Guthier aka AlienJak didn't receive his justice from his wife? question2: Why did Gautama Buddha preach his followers to take the middle path when he himself practised extreme asceticism to attain Enlightenment? Isn't the idea of living a life free from desires paradoxical as it originates from a desire itself?