The government has thousands upon thousands of laws that have to do with your personal finances and also they limit what you can and can and cannot do with your money.
Of course not. Nor can they prevent you from insulting people.
Plenty of hate speech rules. Go to any college campus. Go to any town hall meeting and see if you can say anything you want.
You have to give people freedom, and trust they will do the right thing. Most of them will. A few won't. That's life.,
No having laws that limit your idea of freedoms would lead to total anarchy. Just look at alcohol, the problems it advances in our society is unmeasurable. The cost to our society is tremendous. To have no laws governing it, so someone can per sue their idea of happiness is silly!
I'm in Canada, sausageseller, so I'm in even worse off in that respect. Hate crime laws, HUGE taxes, etc. I have a beer at a BBQ now and then, and sometimes wine with dinner. I am not going to stop drinking in moderation because there is a wino on the street who can't control himself. Would you?
If you revise freedom based on what some moron is willing to do or say, then you are creating a society custom tailored to the lowest common denominator: a seemingly benevolent tyrannical society built around the stupidest, most immoral, most perverse, most irrational, most illogical, most shortsighted, most sensitive member.
I am in college, right now, so I may very well be tending towards more idealist extremes than pragmatic. Nor do I think the situation on college campuses and town halls is anywhere close to good. That is a culture war we're losing. We should be educating people to do things in moderation and within reason, not banning them from doing so. I hope someone else agrees with me or I will be very scared for the future of American freedoms and rights.