And just who is doing the "apportioning"?
Much of the attack on freedom is merely the inevitable reaction to Gramscian redefinition of "perversity" and "being a complete a**hole" as "freedom." If it keeps up long enough, then when most people hear someone defending "freedom," it will be received as "he's defending the freedom to be an absolute Clymer."
Libertarians. Read your Burke for God's sake, the second part of that goes - "Men of intemperate minds cannot be free, their passions form their fetters". In other words, people apportion liberty unto themselves.
Of course with legalisation and an increase of consumption of illegal narcotics, you lot would create every leftie's wet dream, a class of people who cannot take care of themselves. They'll be arguing for a methodone in schools programme and retirement homes for junkies. Don't laugh. The retirement home actually exists in the Netherlands.
Ivan