When we say we support freedom or want freedom, it is usually of a particular kind. Sometimes it refers to freedom of speech, freedom to associate, or freedom to abort babies, but behind this call for freedom is the expectation it will curtail some other freedom. We do not want people to be free to cry fire in crowded theaters or be permitted to call our wives in the middle of the night to say obscene things to her. We claim we love freedom but mostly we love freedom for us, but we fear it for others. This is why we have the state and permit it to legislate our freedom away. We would rather lose our freedoms than permit too much of it, to others.
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