I generally agree with your ideas of what makes a good life and a good society, but you need to recognize that societies and not governments are responsible for these things. Governments are great tools for exercising collective purchasing, collective bargaining, and collective defense. Just about everything else they do is a harm on society justified by the benefits of other government activities.

Free speech is great because social consequences not government laws keep it check. Free speech is not about what kind of society we want to create. It is about not going to jail for your opinions, regardless of what kind of society someone else wants to create.