On anonymous liberty

I am so very glad that for at least my lifetime, freedom for the ordinary person such as myself has been prevalent enough to let me have the satisfaction and joy of anonymous liberty.

- From previous post

One of the first things that should be said about liberty is the worn cliché that the freedom to swing my arms ends at another person's nose.

And — from what I have observed in my 70+ years — too many "freedom" advocates fail to compensate or even note the impact their actions have on others. Most often we simply seek avoidance of these costs through the accepted anonymity of so much of our public freedom. No one pays attention to most of what we do, as long as it is within the limits of acceptable behavior. A mild "tsk, tsk" is it, if anything, as a negative response within these boundaries.

But when the molehill of the detritus of our individual lives becomes a collective mountain of putrid garbage, fouling the ground on which we nest ...

When the lack of there being a law against it becomes the right to ruin rivers ... and even the oceans become threatened ...

Or, for that matter, mothers and children go without adequate medical care ... or education ... in a wealthy nation?

When do we begin to examine the real cost of what is hidden behind the cloak of "anonymous liberty"?