So, do you think you should be swinging your fist right up to people’s faces, or do you think there’s a reasonable distance people can expect their faces to be free from fists?

The section you quoted… is that the kind of liberty you identify with? You seem willing to consider cooperation. The people I’m thinking of in that section would call any compromise the “tyranny of the majority.” Which, don’t get me wrong, can be a thing — I’m aware of the sheep and wolves voting on what’s for dinner — but I also think in most cases, in society, when people attempt to cooperate by voting, that’s not what’s going on.

I really do think the maximum level of freedom comes when we cooperate to achieve it. Affirmative action, socialized medicine, and other programs are complicated and it’s appropriate for us to have earnest, complex conversations about them as a society.

I think it’s a mistake to think swinging a fist near someone’s face is a liberty that outweighs that person’s liberty to be unmolested by fists. Any fist that gets as close as a mosquito is too close. Hell, any fist within arms’ reach.