>>> In a free country, the individual and not “society” is the measure. If the shoe fits ...
I don’t agree to live in a society where anything; as in any behavior is pressed/mandated as being ok to do. You are calling for protections by a government that you claim are far overreaching. Even the Founders mentioned God and mortality for a free society to exist i.e. a lasting foundation for a society’s populace comes by a standard. You are so busted. People as you are liberals through and through. You want it both ways and or by an extreme version.
There is no such thing as a totally free country. People have to respect the rights of others, and in my opinion people ought to especially respect the right of others not to get into their pockets to pay for the bad behavior of stupid people.
Here, let me put you on to the Father of Social Conservatism. You might learn something, but I doubt it. You appear to be a whiny little brat that doesn't like being told "No" when he wants something.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.-Edmund Burke- 1791