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The Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, defines dread as the knowledge of what you must do to prove you’re free, even if it will destroy you. His example is Adam in the Garden of Eden, happy and content until God shows him the Tree of Knowledge and says, “Don’t eat this.” Now, Adam is no longer free. Thee is one rule he can break, he must break
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that's the reasoning for the weak - when feel you have to prove to someone, or even yourself, that you're free, then you are no longer free. the entrapment's not in the rule, it's in the mind, and it's a binding that the weak of mind create for themselves
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