It's a centuries old debate initially had out by Hobbes and Rousseau. Hobbes' famous phrase from Leviathan "bellum omnium contra omnus" (the war of all against

It's a centuries old debate initially had out by Hobbes and Rousseau. Hobbes' famous phrase from Leviathan "bellum omnium contra omnus" (the war of all against all) describes absolute freedom as being problematic indeed. Rosseau provides an answer in The Social Contract to say you can't have a war of all against all, you instead need the state to be responsible for being able to imprison people and collect taxes on them and this alleviates (generally speaking, to a large degree) the problems absolute freedom present.