ABSTRACT
People sometimes say duties to society and sometimes duties to others almost as though there were no difference. Some feel that the preservation of liberty is more important than anything else in public affairs, and they find it hard to understand how anyone can think it is not. Others think liberty an expendable luxury compared with the need for order and strong government. No doubt there would be differences between a liberal society and an authoritarian one; different institutions and different methods of enforcing them. This chapter explains that the blame is borne by each individual. The principles in political philosophy involve value judgments hardly take us beyond the threshold. The phrase, an individual duty to the community, might refer to civil or legal duties. There is something wrong with a society in which men are afraid to criticize the government.
