Tort doesn t protect everything that s worth anything .
Tort relies on a special form of protection, and has to be practical .
Trite 2 Duties restrict liberty Trite 3 Torts as compromises the value of protecting the interest against the importance of preserving the liberty Three propositions about the compromises 1. It may be appropriate to set different compromises between protection and liberty for different economic interests. If there are concerns about the effect of such torts on liberty we may want to make special efforts to define carefully what behaviour is restricted. This may make it convenient to have torts which focus on a particular form of restrictable behaviour.