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Opinion | When lofty collective notions trample our individual liberty

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Concepts like ‘the greater good’ could be used to justify clamps on freedom in a post-covid world How important is individual liberty to you?

All of us may have to face this question once the covid-19 pandemic is over. For, the one thing that can be predicted with great certainty is that once the virus subsides, people all over the world will be left with less individual liberty than they enjoyed earlier.

Right now, much of it has been taken away from us. We are not allowed to venture out of our homes unless we have a very good reason to.

Even then, stringent restrictions apply. Of course, the vast majority of us have accepted the new constraints without protest, and rightly so, since in times of a national emergency, we recognize that

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