Freedom Has Priority Over Safety

Common experience does not support the notion that safety is preferable to liberty. People are noted to take great risks, including risking their lives, to flee oppressive regimes. There are constitutional protections for liberty interests such as privacy and due process, even though those protections may be accompanied by risks to public safety. History is full of examples of people who risked and gave their lives, both in pursuit of and in defense of freedom.

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