Classical liberals want to produce more freedom and give it to everyone (unjustified lack of freedom = oppression). Progressive leftism seems to understand freedom as a limited resource, so it has to be redistributed (unjustified surplus of freedom = privilege). Discuss.
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Replying to @Plinz
Both are somewhat correct, structurally we have limited resources at any point and time, and the distribution of them is important. But we can also expand the top of the funnel and capture more energy in total to distribute.
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Replying to @Polycephaland
I am not sure if freedom itself is a limited resource, even though inequality and productivity seem to have a complicated relationship, and productivity matters for the amount of resources that can be distributed.
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Replying to @Plinz @Polycephaland
there's always a point where your freedom to do X limits someone else's freedom to do Y. thus there's a limit, and balancing these is a complex problem
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That depends on whether the freedom consumes a scarce resource, or depends on the exploitation of others. Your freedom to have arbitrary kinds of consensual sex, or to wear an arbitrary costume, or to discuss arbitrary ideas with your friends is probably not in that category.
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