I suppose you're being ironic, but I think most scholars have (unironically) said as much. Obv. example, yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie house. In most of th

I suppose you're being ironic, but I think most scholars have (unironically) said as much. Obv. example, yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie house. In most of the cases you mentioned we all wish that people were better people — showed some self-control. (Might as well add fire-arms to your list as well.) And hoping that all people can behave with all out interests in mind, we give people those freedoms (as we do) and then the rest of us are left to endlessly grouse about how fucked up our society is because of those people and their poor choices. So how do you win? Some people have concluded that we might, as a society, actually be better off without "Thing X" as one of our freedoms. I'm willing to entertain those arguments.