If you say people should be free to do what they want, then it is hypocritical to tell other people they’re using their freedom wrong.

Freedom in social animals is always limited by the impact of individual freedom on others in the society.

If our goal it to maximize individual freedom, then we must more effectively distinguish between which individual actions are a bonafide detriment to the well being of others.

It’s ok if your flag offends me. I want the freedom to fly a flag that offends you too. When mobs gather behind either of our flags I fear for our freedom.

My weird and offensive freedom relies on your weird and offensive freedom even though our weird and offensive freedoms are antithetical to one another.

I need free queers, nazis, polygamists, religious wackos, arm chair revolutionaries, unionists, anarchists, traditionalists, and the rest, because as long as their freedoms are in bounds so are mine.

It’s the circular firing squad, of pluralistic democracy, that keeps us all from pulling the trigger.

…Please, nobody pull the trigger.