For most people “freedom” means the security to be what they are. From this egocentric understanding of liberty they easily lapse into thinking that freedom requires security (i.e. policing of others) to be as they are.
Again the one : many :: egocentricity : others to be as one’s self.
Did anyone ever wonder why Rhenquist is such a devotée of free speech? why a judge who upholds or declines “federalism” in accordance as it will shaft the little guy, who consistently comes down on the side of the jackboot and bank vault should suddenly uphold the right to bellow and blaspheme? He does it because freedom is the best known way to keep the masses in line. .
When people say that god is patient with man's sins, that is just a polite way of saying that he is an indifferent, cowardly bastard that doesn't do anything to rectify his evolutionary mistake.
Politics is not a matter of personal preference (a peculiarly bourgeois idea). Politics is a question of necessity -- a matter of understanding what is required by the physical circumstances and our time and place and condition in history.