I spent last weekend at the inaugural conference of a new organization for libertarian women called Libertia. We talked about a lot of different things, but a topic we kept returning to was why it matters whether women are engaged in the conversation about liberty. One of the reasons it matters is that when different kinds of people are involved in conversations different kinds of questions get asked.

Here are some of those kinds of questions about various events from this week that I really wish were being asked.

1. How might the mass collection of data affect people who do not have socially acceptable sexualities? We might think about this in relation to the approaching “gay propaganda” ban in Russia, or in relation to those who engage in, for example, consensual but violent sex here in the U.S?
2. What does this mass collection of data do to those people who are trying to, for example, escape from an abusive relationship and who may well have personal safety reasons not to want their movements tracked? Some of them may be using underground networks in order to escape. What happens to their safety? What happens to those networks?
3. Snowden appears to have made a choice between what looks like a very happy personal life and the opportunity to confront the state. How does one make that decision? How do we weigh those risks?
4. I have seen a few others ask this, but it can’t be asked often enough. Why all the shaming for Snowden for  his GED and his unfinished community college education? He’s making $200,000 a year and is being called a slacker?
5. If a justice system is stacked against one—because of race or gender or sexual preference or the nature of one’s offense—and if that system has a history of engaging in torture, indefinite detention, and the execution of citizens without a trial, does the rule of law oblige one to cheerfully volunteer to serve out whatever sentence may be handed down?

Someone is sure to argue that these questions aren’t particularly “women’s questions” or about “women’s issues.” But that’s the point. The value of a diverse conversation about liberty is its diverse and unpredictable questions and approaches. Go ask something new.

(And if you have some questions of your own about this week that you think haven’t been asked enough or at all, leave them in the comments. Maybe someone will try to answer.)