This is a good perspective, and a great case study in understanding how freedoms are always in tension. The usual remedy to protect people from freely making t

This is a good perspective, and a great case study in understanding how freedoms are always in tension. The usual remedy to protect people from freely making the mistake of entering into associations that harm them is regulatory, of course. Employment regulations place certain rules on what you can expect when you choose to throw yourself into association with a company as an employee, to prevent you accidentally finding yourself at the whim of an abusive employer. Regulating what kinds of things HOAs can demand is a perfectly reasonable thing for governments to do to make it safer for people to purchase houses with confidence they won’t be subjected to egregious restrictions. So we do end up limiting freedom of association. You can’t join up into an HOA with your neighbors that bans any of you from selling your house to a black family.