E-mailer John F. gets it: “I’d go to the mat on the principle that no one in the world wants to be in chains in a cotton field. So freedom from that condition may fairly be said to be desired by all. On the other hand, it may well be that not everyone wants the freedom to be, let’s say, sexually promiscuous, a freedom we are used to here. Plainly, the ‘freer’ the freedom, the fewer will feel a need for it. But surely there is some minimum model of freedom that virtually every person in the world would want.”