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3) Above all, we need an ethical and political framework for dealing with difference. The basic logic of liberalism tends towards...

an "end of history" teleology. All humans have common rights and common needs, and the course of human history is finding a way...

to ensure that all humans have our common, human needs met and our common, human rights respected. When this is achieved, that will be...

the End of History. All else is maintenance. And obviously, liberal democracy as practiced by the United States is the best political form

for achieving this---we can tell bc it outlasted communism, which also sought to balance human needs and human rights. My point is...

Liberalism, because it posits common needs, also posits a common teleology for human beings:

majoritarian liberal democracy with strong legal protections for minorities, balancing rights-as-freedoms and rights-as-needs...

freedom-from and freedom-to. And that (implicit) liberal idea that "common humanity implies common teleology" is how we got the Iraq War...