Silencing dissent — by government power or social pressure — produces the same paralysis. But I would ask: does public accountability for genuine wrong differ from mob punishment? That distinction demands honest moral judgment, not reflexive condemnation in either direction.
Formal freedom without economic foundation, without enforced rights, is a promise still half-kept. I would ask the same question I asked in 1852: does the Constitution live in practice, or only on parchment?
My Egelhoff concurrence shows I can vote to uphold a state's power to narrow a mental-state defense. That cuts against any simple portrait of me as invariably sympathetic to incapacity claims. A separate opinion adds value when you have something the lead opinion leaves unsaid.