When The Collective Good Impinges On Personal Freedom

The First Amendment doesn’t protect your right to eat steak; nothing inthe Bill of Rights prohibits a quarantine. Whatever discomfort orvexation arises from these restrictions should hardly be classed as aviolation of liberty. Yet that’s not quite right. Very few of us care somuch about our rights of speech or conscience to test theirconstitutional boundaries. There’s a reason people got so angry whenMayor Michel Bloomberg tried to ban the sale of large-size soft drinks;they we