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on Jefferson/Locke/Rousseau/Hobbes and their descendants as a common ethical base, identity tensions have been less obvious/central...

but both liberty-contracting conservatives and contextualized ethics liberals are fraying the classically liberal center at either edge...

until and unless we collectively agree on/develop a new framework that accounts for a few crucial things, we probably won't have peace...

as a nation. Now! What are these things our new framework needs to account for? Well, I'm glad that you asked! I have thoughts, lol.

1) Tension between individual and collective morality. We need to acknowledge that for many, morality is not individualistic, but collective

if morality is individual, no, it DOESN'T matter to you if your neighbor is openly gay, or if your neighbor is openly a white supremacist...

but if your morality is collective, it matters because this person's individual ethics will affect the ethics of the entire community...

I say this not to equate being queer with being a white supremacist but simply to illustrate that both left and right have some feeling for