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Liberalism and Freedom:
The Liberal contradiction exists between the opposing values of security & freedom.
Because a person cannot value both security & freedom at the same time. You must choose and in so choosing, expose yourself as more conservative (valuing security) or more liberal (valuing freedom). Liberals resist and defy any notion of 'Nature' including innate biological qualities. Any obvious natural trait, such as inborn qualities of skin color, hair color, eye color, body shape, etc. tend to become denied by extreme liberals as "a social construct". When a liberal claims any human phenomenon as "a social construct", you can rest-assured that it is in fact not a social construct at all, but just the opposite. It is natural and resists change.
The very idea of humanity and anthropology presupposes a 'Human' category, a specific body shape that readily is observed and obvious to all, the human body shape. To be human, is to constitute and embody that innate, inborn, natural trait. Thus constitutes "Human Nature".
Liberals struggle against nature, and when defeated ("X …is a social construct"), instead prefer to redefine nature when & where liberals see fit.
Liberals have already gone to great lengths, over centuries of philosophers, eras, societies, cultures, etc. to redefine human nature.
Many have claimed that human nature is… intrinsically good, intrinsically evil, human equality, human rights, etc.
These ought not be seen as actual qualities that people are born with, but instead, a reaction to other real qualities that people are born with. For example, imagine a child is born "healthier" than another, or to rich parents. It's not fair. And humans are born unequal. Thus the idea that humans are "born equal", before The Creator, is a reaction to the actual.
What actually exists, is inequality. And liberalism reinforces the idea of "human equality" as a solution to the premise.
Liberals eventually create a whole society that inverts the premise.
People eventually begin to believe that people are in fact "born equal" or even, "deserve equality"…
"“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” ~Joseph Goebbels
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