Sorry, I don't understand. Liberalism is against freedom & individuality?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Opposite. Liberalism is based on freedom of the individual. I just dont think current argument to that end is as good as it could be.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
I don't think there needs to be an argument for freedom & individuality so much as a very strong one for denying or restricting them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I agree the onus ought to be on those who advocate restriction. But I also think its good to be able to present an argument why.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
Won't 'It makes me happy without harming anyone else' do? Only thing all my freedoms & individual choices have in common.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
People who take against you will question what you mean by "me", "happy" and "harm". As they did J.S Mill. Pays to have some answers ready.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
Harm, yes. That needs clarifying. I don't need arguments for being a person or justifications of what I mean by happiness.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Both the left and the right criticise the liberal conception of the person. Seeing each of us as being more situated than liberals allow.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
You can think you are an immortal soul made in the image of a god, a computer simulation, a conduit for hegemonic discourses,
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GEdwardsTwit
a biological organism which possesses the illusion of self or a completely autonomous individual constrained by nothing. IDC.
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To live together, we need to let ppl believe what they want & penalise only actions which cause demonstrable harm to others.
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