Common good and individual freedoms are often opposed, as it's very unlikely for us to succeed in taming just the destructive sides of human passions, without t

Common good and individual freedoms are often opposed, as it's very unlikely for us to succeed in taming just the destructive sides of human passions, without taking away a bit of creative and positive passions and freedoms too. Societies always oscillate between the two, and unfortunately it seems that we're now past the first half and in the phase where people get scared into giving away individual freedoms in exchange for more safety and sense of control.