Liberty and Licence
The term Liberty is regarded morally good and frequently used in writings and speeches of political leaders in good sense and its opposites terms like oppression, imprisonment, slavery are regarded as undesirable and morally bad. In its simplest sense, liberty means to do as one wishes or act as one chooses. So liberty means absence of restrictions. However, few people are prepared to support the removal of all restrictions upon individual. R. H. Tawney, " The freedom of the pike is death to the minnows." When liberty is interpreted as the absence or removal of all restrictions or restraints on the action of individual it is always disregard of the interest of other individuals.In that case, one mans liberty would become another's constraint or oppression. Removal of all restrictions on the individuals on the individual's liberty become 'Licence'. It means abuse of freedom. It is the point at which freedom becomes 'excessive' So we can use libe...