May 19
Liberty
A survey of issues
• freedom of speech ( see also HERE )
• privacy — facial recognition, whatsapp encryption
• obscenity/indecency — masturbating, nudism, nudist beaches, public sex
• chilled speech
• platforming in the private sphere
• euthanasia
• suicide
• foxhunting
• cultural appropriation
• holocaust denial
• pimping
• slave owning
• selling oneself to slavery
• compulsory education
• inhibitions of the social structure, eg classism, sexism, ageism, ableism and racism
• recreational drug use
• substance addiction
• freedom of belief/worship/conscience
• thoughtcrime (any political correctness)
• pre-crime
• economic harms
• stinkbombs
• pollution
• noise pollution
• light pollution, eg strobe lighting
• littering
• dogpoo
• ASB (anti-social behaviour) incidents
• parody
• misogyny
• catcalling
• guardianship of minors
• abortion
• incentivised sterilisation
• prostitution
• female circumcision
• male circumcision
• airbrushing
• refusal to serve customers (taxi driver guidedog allergy; “gay cake” bakers)
• surveillance — government intelligence services
• bad manners, eg burping loudly during a meal in the West
• breast feeding
• carrying a bomb
• corporal punishment
• smacking children
• consensual duelling
• playing with knives
• triggering
• producing porn
• watching porn (publicly eg on a mobile on the bus)
• smoking in bars
• seatbelts
• polygamy
• unilaterally secession
• renounce citizenship
• remove citizenship
• PREVENT
• bake grandma’s ashes into cookies
• bribery
• necrophilia
• incest
• bestiality
• right to alter medical devices in your own body? eg pacemaker
• sectioning under the Mental Health Act
• forced nonhuman sterilisation
• taking minors to protests
• forced car insurance
• milkshaking politicians
• “punch a Nazi”
• “punch a Tory”
• eat the rich
• choice architecture/libertarian paternalism/nudging
• regulate risk
• bikes on pavement
• vois on pavement
• regulation of internet/social media
• psychological warfare
• big cat pets
• intoxication
• compulsory voting
• vibration
• stinkbombs
• hijab
• match fixing
• hunting without a licence
• open borders
• assault
• unregulated loot boxes
• sharia courts
• property
• theft
• free bleeding
• farting in a lift
• kissing and groping in a supermarket checkout
• playing Russian roulette
• breach of private contract NDA violations
• begging
• loitering (with intent)
• spitting
• urban exploration
• owning weapons
• carrying weapons
