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    Liberties of speech, association, worship, and choice of ... — Carmelics
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    Liberties of speech, association, worship, and choice of profession are more important than liberties such as driving the wrong way on a one-way street, not wearing a seat belt, or disposing of gross income freely.

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    • 1.A central part of practical deliberation is forming ideals and regulating one's actions in accordance with those ideals.
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    • 2.Restrictions on liberties of speech, association, worship, and choice of profession interfere more with deliberations about what sort of person to be than restrictions on traffic rules, safety regulations, or income disposal.
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    • 3.The importance of a liberty is proportional to its role in enabling deliberation about personal ideals.
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    • 1.Economic liberties, including disposal of gross income, are constitutive of self-authorship and property rights no less than expressive liberties, as Nozick argues in Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
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    • 2.A principled liberty hierarchy cannot treat economic self-determination as categorically less important than speech without presupposing a contested perfectionist ranking of human activities.
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    • 3.If the state may restrict income disposal for redistributive ends, the same paternalist logic permits restricting speech deemed socially harmful, collapsing the proposed hierarchy.
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    • 1.Traffic regulations and safety mandates directly protect third parties from physical harm, satisfying Mill's own harm principle as a legitimate basis for restriction.
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    • 2.If so-called minor liberties are already justifiably limited by harm prevention, they are not genuinely comparable cases to speech restrictions, making the hierarchy a false contrast rather than a principled ranking.
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    Key Terms

    Freedom of association(as used in discussion of fundamental rights)
    The right to spend time with, form groups with, and organize alongside other people of your choosing.
    Freedom of speech(as used in discussion of fundamental rights)
    The right to express your opinions and ideas without the government punishing or stopping you.
    Freedom of worship(A contested point in the Heptaplomeres on which the speakers disagree, unlike their agreement on freedom of conscience)
    The right of multiple religions to practice openly in the same city, distinguished from the inner freedom of conscience
    Gross income(as used in the statement about economic freedoms)
    The total amount of money you earn before taxes and other deductions are taken out.
    Hierarchy of values(as implied by the statement's claim that certain liberties are 'more important than' others)
    A ranking system that says some things are more important or worthwhile than others.
    Liberties(as used in political philosophy)
    Basic freedoms that people have the right to exercise without government interference, like the ability to speak your mind or practice your religion.

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    Though these liberties evidently include quite a bit, there is no suggestion here that any and all liberty deserves protection. Why not? Insofar as Mill defends individual liberties by appeal to deliberative values, he can distinguish the importance of different liberties in terms of their role in practical deliberation. A central part of practical deliberation is forming ideals and regulating one’s actions and plans in accordance with these ideals. But some liberties seem more central than othe
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