Unrestrained liberty is no better than no liberty at all.
Moreover, a measure of unrestrained liberty reduces a corresponding level of the overall liberty of the society.
To repeat a slogan I've used on here before, liberty is something to be optimized, not maximized.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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