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government tries to do just that. a problem. freedom is fundamental part, rather than the tip of the spear of the american ethos. some people have it ass-backwards and freedom is used as a means of avoiding responsibility, and increasingly so. it is undermining the necessity for a society to have discipline and understand the value in different freedoms, rather than the whole concept.
you protect freedom in the united states by using it for the benefit of yourself and the community: commerce, charity, etc. the government, much as it does, could loosely support these applications.
Very true. Freedom is not the infantile state of lack of responsibility and absolution from the consequences of one's actions.
IMHO, Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Basically, we can do anything we want just as long as we do not infringe upon the rights of others.