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Right to liberty

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"The right to liberty: there should be no laws compromising in any way freedom of speech, of the press, and peaceable assembly. There should be no censorship of ideas, books, films, or of anything else by the government."

This is different from the right to life because it is not an individuals personal life that is being imposed on, it is the things they make available to the public. People have the ability to look away, so there is no need for censorship. Some might disagreee on the extent that people are able to block unwanted content from their lives. Children for example are full of curiosity, and a mother might be concerned about what it is exposed to. Ideas are very powerful.