Freedom is not an unalloyed good. It allows people both to flourish and to make mistakes. Freedom, then, can never be perfection. And finding the sweet spot between license and veto is a never-ending quest. The problem is as old as Aristotle, who called his answer to ethical dilemmas the “golden mean” – the middle ground between two extremes.
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