弗里德曼在《选择的共和国》一书主要关注“现代西方法律与权威的特征”①,“个人选择”是其法律文化的核心概念,他指出“新型法律文化的核心是一种态度,这种态度赋予了个人选择的观念以至上的地位”②,进而大笔勾勒出“选择的共和国”。然而,选择的共和国并不是想象中的那么美好,并不是社会中的每一个人都能完成好塑造一个有意义的自我这一任务,“并不是每一个人都能够精心设计出一条能带给个人满足和生命中美好事物的人生道路,”③失败的选择带来了极度不满并导致了社会的病态和犯罪,但对某些诸如无受害人之犯罪(victimless crime)控制手段的演变仍然体现了以个人选择为 Freedman’s “Selected Republics” focuses primarily on the “characteristics of modern Western law and authority”. “Personal choice” is the core concept of his legal culture. He points out that “the core of the new legal culture It is an attitude that gives the concept of supremacy of individual choice to the ”republic of choice“. However, the chosen Republic is not as beautiful as imagined, and not every individual in society can accomplish the task of shaping a meaningful self. ”Not everyone can elaborate a band of energy To the path of personal satisfaction and life in the good things of life, "3 the failure of choice has brought extreme dissatisfaction and led to social morbidity and crime, but evolved over some means of control such as victimless crime Still embodies the personal choice