jimithyashford
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Re: What is a Liberal?
The big problem with letting people do what they want is that what a LOT of people WANT to do is, either deliberately or incidentally, extremely restrictive to the ability of other people to do what they want. Allowing as many people as possible to do what they want necessitates putting serious restrictions on some people doing what they want. This is true for both the Social and Economic pillars of your statement above.
What it means to me, regardless of modern or local/national parlance?
Liberal social policy: let people do what they want.
Liberal economic policy: let people do what they want with their money.
Liberal foreign policy: the pursuit of global liberation.
For the philosophical cornerstones of this, see signature.
The big problem with letting people do what they want is that what a LOT of people WANT to do is, either deliberately or incidentally, extremely restrictive to the ability of other people to do what they want. Allowing as many people as possible to do what they want necessitates putting serious restrictions on some people doing what they want. This is true for both the Social and Economic pillars of your statement above.