–better pay a price for freedom than have it curtailed—-It looks like Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets, could have only made her choice in a free society. To the mind of most she chose wrongly. She’s using food stamps, three of her children have disabilities and collect some social security disability payments, and given the prognosis for octuplets in general, possibly more. As a person it may well be that she’s selfish, stubborn, short-sighted, obsessed and unrealistic (if so she’s far from alone) and all this adds up to the fact that since public monies are bound to be involved we are all affected. One can make a case for the fact that she is no different than the Wall Street companies and bankers who after a series of bad judgments required public money not to fail. It does look like nothing but a variation of the same theme. Regardless, I’d rather live in a society where freedom leads to mistakes we all pay for, rather than in one where it may be so curtailed our choices are no longer ours and we no longer have the freedom to make any.