Laws protecting dissenters from official retaliation create genuine personal freedom

Evidence

The less social jurisdiction there is over given activities, the greater the freedom of action in those domains. Once protective laws are built into social systems, there are certain things that a society may not do to individuals who challenge conventional values or vested interests, however much it might like to. Legal prohibitions against unauthorized societal control create personal freedoms that are realities, not illusory abstractions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to how societies restrain majorities’ impulse to punish ideological dissent; links loosely to Cooper’s social-conservatism argument about policing political enemies. — connects to: Natural freedom means acting within natural law without another’s permission — , Second Treatise of Government, 13; Legal prohibitions against state control create real personal freedoms; Liberties granted within a repressive society can themselves serve repression — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2582 (+10 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 104
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Natural freedom means acting within natural law without another’s permission — , Second Treatise of Government, 13; Legal prohibitions against state control create real personal freedoms; Liberties granted within a repressive society can themselves serve repression — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2582 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberties granted within a repressive society can themselves serve repression #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2582
• Laws meant to enhance freedom can themselves create new arbitrary power. #complicates (0.84) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 56
• A system tolerates and rewards dissent that stays within its boundaries #complicates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 340
• Acts that respect one person’s freedom can tyrannize another’s. #complicates (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132
• Unlimited individual freedom breeds new repression through natural inequality #complicates (0.76) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 534