Anthony Clifford Grayling argues in his book Liberty in the Age of Terror that "Liberty is not divisible, a society's members do not have it if they have only some of it in some spheres."
There is no denying that incremental reductions of aspects of civil liberties are a danger to society. Sometimes claims that members of a society have secure margins of liberties in their lives ring hollow, especially when nation states are dealing with issues of national security, real or imagined.
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