It's easy to wave the flag of liberty. It's much harder to understand what liberty is.
" What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." - Thomas Jefferson
We are blind to our motivations. We create what we fear. The man who fears slavery irrationally makes slaves of others to save us from slavery.