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In reply to the discussion: I have the right to perform a sexual service in exchange for money. [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)with the exception of cognitive or emotional conditions that might make behavior(s) uncontrollably impulsive.
It seems to me that you are mixing Right to act with an absence of prior restraint. Until recently law enforcement stayed away from prior restraint. That wasn't really so much a right for individuals to act as it was a constraint on enforcement.
I'm not sure it endows a right to act, but rather the liberty of a few degrees of freedom which provide an unrestrained opportunity to to act.
I suppose that you might say, in that way, that you are at liberty to behave in any manner you wish, understanding of course that your action(s) may have you dealing with consequences imposed by others.
I have no problem with the concept of liberty. I think advocacy of yeoman Libertarianism with its exceptionalist individualism deserves ridicule if it doesn't acknowledge limits. Society and subgroups within it work because people recognize the concept of "being in it together" still provides much liberty.
The normative expectations of togetherness may chafe some at some times, but togetherness isn't all bad. Recognition that we are in it together rests beneath empathy and sympathy, and determination to be in it together is what creates the power to protect the weakest among us from the predators and bullies among us.
It seems that in the past 15-20 years a mostly selfish anti-social Libertarianism has gained acceptance in our society. If left unchecked it will destroy society as we know it, including values of the left such as equality and most definitely will destroy the progressive foundation of fraternity.