Individuals, and their freedoms and purposes, can be more important than states {liberalism}| {liberal democracy}.
principles
No objective standards for living exist, except to allow others equal freedom. People can freely choose styles and behaviors. Human autonomy is itself worthy. Freedom leads to the most experimentation and so to truth, while restriction only leads to pain and conflict. Forcing people to live certain ways is against psychology and causes revolt, but freedom brings tolerance.
requirements
Liberalism requires ability to choose, education, freedom, available choices, diverse society, virtue, and fulfillment of duties based on sacrifice, not on social bonds.
effects
Liberalism can erode family and community. Liberalism can promote associations that are good for people, rather than only traditional.
history
Liberalism began when state separated from church and allowed religious freedom and later other freedoms. As societies became more diverse, they removed controls from unregulatable things. Liberalism arose as capitalism, competition, markets, and individual consumers replaced community structures and their mutual obligations, caste systems, totalitarianism, and religious values.
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