ABSTRACT
This chapter first comprises ways of thinking/speaking that have m-built incoherence as ordinarily deployed and the second comprises ones that are simply too vague or ambiguous to be vehicles for sound thought as they stand. The author point is that these are all huge moral questions that requires much careful thought and such thought is not advanced by deployment of vague slogans like: 'We should be tolerant of those who differ from us. Generally speaking, most professional ethical dilemmas concerning freedom are ones that concern action, not thought and negative freedom, not positive freedom. There are a number of related terms which are used in the discussions that author have in mind, terms like 'equity', 'equality', 'fairness' and so on. Harking back for the moment to my concern that 'needs' worded propositions have a spurious status as apparent objective truths.
