S4:E21 - The Drumhead
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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As much as I agree with the general idea, I feel like this exact hard-line approach to freedoms is what got the US where it is today. Daily Mass shootings as a consequence of not abolishing the freedom to own guns, no worker protection as consequence of not losing entrepreneurial freedoms.
I know thats not what Picard had in mind here, but he and his dialogue were written by US authors influenced by this system
And free speech was never absolute. Forget yelling fire in a crowded etc, no sane person thinks that you should be allowed to commit fraud, for example.
Yep, and a large group of people thought their fundamental freedoms were being trampled on when it was suggested they ease off on being racist homophobes, and things just snowballed from there