Freedom and morality - a fraught or happy marriage?

[Martin Cassini]

In Thought for the Day, referring to City pay, Rev Dr Giles Fraser (former philosophy tutor at Wadham College, Oxford) said there is a tendency for freedom of the individual to be a cuckoo's licence to kick out other moral values; a moral dimension is needed to frame or refine it (words to that effect). So he sees a conflict between freedom and the common good. Applied to traffic, I see them as perfectly bedfellows. Freedom stimulates mutual tolerance. Self-interest and the common good are two sides of the same coin. As soon as you impose a network of control, you damage that elegant alliance.