The seductive pull of contemporary liberalism is the concept of the faultless individual and the associated practice of reciprocative discounting of shame. It is a philosophy in which poor results for an individual are necessarily the result of good results for another. Unfortunately most people intuitively understand the absurdity of such an argument and that is the reason for reservation of expressed judgement. The unspoken proposition is something like this:
"I won't say you are bad if you won't say I am bad."
Rejecting this proposition instigates a campaign to compel the dissenter to embrace the principle of which the proponent is ashamed.
An interesting difference between contemporary liberal-progressives and contemporary conservatives
Conservatives: Generally seek to prevent others from doing things that Conservatives find wrong.
Progressives: Generally seek to compel others to do things that those others find wrong.
Neither approach embraces the principle of liberty.
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