[demosthenes the elder]

apples and oranges.
you set up a false comparison.
being a dumb-ass in and of itself hurts no one (but the dumbass)
your list of sins are all intrinsically harmful to others.
your comparison is thus not logically valid.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

My comparison is very valid, because "freedom of association" was used to justify all those things in the past.