I think the "personal freedom vs collective responsibility" debate is largely indicative of our own short-sightedness as a species. In a society without laws, y

I think the "personal freedom vs collective responsibility" debate is largely indicative of our own short-sightedness as a species. In a society without laws, your personal freedom lasts only until your neighbour shivs you in the night. Laws are a collective negotiation of the extent to which we want to minimize short-term, high-visibility liberty in order to gain long-term, low-visibility liberty.