There's the Hunter S. Thompson kind of freedom: to sit on his back porch in his underwear and shoot field mice with his .45 pistol. That's not a very interestin

There's the Hunter S. Thompson kind of freedom: to sit on his back porch in his underwear and shoot field mice with his .45 pistol. That's not a very interesting freedom for those of us who would threaten neighborhood safety by discharging firearms on our back porches. Then, there's the freedom that's intertwined with responsibility. We can, without regulation, do things for ourselves and our communities. Free and Open Source Software is a good example of the work-product of that kind of freedom. Sexual freedom between "consenting adults" is in fact an example of freedom intertwined with responsibility. My point: considering "freedom" as a standalone concept leads to all kinds of category confusion.