To be free is a beautiful thing and those that truly understand freedom are the same that value it immensely, of which, some of those that are most liberty loving are the same that believe strongly that because we have individual sovereignty that we should be permitted to do whatever that we so desire to do with our bodies and our minds without limitation or restriction from any authority, as long as we do not infringe upon the other’s same freedoms. In other words, as much as this might upset some conservative-minded people, we should have the right to ingest whatever substances that interest us, licit or illicit, that taxation is a form of theft because we have earned that money which thereby makes it ours, and to sell our body for sex to another if both parties are of age and agree to the terms is our prerogative, and so on. Yet, as much as we might desire this freedom to be about our business and thereby not have to answer to governmental authority, what should not be forgotten is that we also have an inherent obligation to the community that we are an integral part of.
Indeed, there needs to be some reasonable restraints on our liberties, in consideration that none of us is an island, of itself, even though our ego might insist that we have done it all on our own, and always our way. Those who are honest and have reflected on themselves, though they might not want to acknowledge it, have achieved their success in ways that have necessitated some use of what would be considered public funding, such as schools, roads, the defense of the homeland, and basic infrastructure. Though all of us are entitled to the criticism that such may not be efficient, or even at times effective, it is, though, what makes for a construct which will help create better welfare for the whole, as contrasted to a construct in which everyone is simply about their own self, and thereby the devil takes the hindmost.
So too, some of us are born into significantly better circumstances than others are, which in a fair and caring society, we would want to help out those that should be provided with a fair opportunity to take in the best that this nation represents, which means that we need to have created the infrastructure and then put forth the necessary throughput to see that happens for those in need, as opposed to something akin to benign neglect -- for the best community is that which a significant portion of the population is engaged in positive activities that make for a wholesome and uplifting experience. Additionally, each of us needs to recognize that it isn’t always about ourselves, for a society in which competition or self-centeredness is of more value than cooperation is invariably going to be an unfair society, filled with injustice, dissent, poverty, and the like, because all those who are intent and focused exclusively on their own success and nothing else, have disowned their obligation to the community that first birth them and their parents who nurtured them by their not giving back appropriately.