The discourse around highly idealised and abstracted notions of freedom is a relic of the Cold War and prior struggles against totalitarianism. Take, for e.g., freedom of speech. Traditionally, and in practice, both liberals and conservatives reject the notion of absolute freedom of speech. The liberal accepts constraints arising negatively from the potential for harm done to others. The conservative understands constraints as arising naturally from the law's embodiment of society's values. (The former is the dominant force in society today, although what constitutes harming others has expanded considerably, to the extent that it is thought necessary to preface works by Kant with "trigger warnings", lest today's fragile undergraduates be given vertigo by exposure to his dangerously subversive ideas. The latter is an almost occult tradition, which holds that such freedoms that exist are produced by our institutions rather than Platonic forms whose existence is limited by them where necessary.)