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    A liberal framework that grades freedoms by their role in... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Not all liberties deserve equal protection; some liberties are more important than others.

    A liberal framework that grades freedoms by their role in 'selecting personal ideals' privileges certain conceptions of the good over others.

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    • 1.Grading freedoms by their role in selecting personal ideals assumes autonomy and self-authorship are paramount goods worth protecting.
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    • 2.This framework systematically disadvantages traditions, communities, and religious practices that view the good as discovered rather than chosen.
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    • 3.By prioritizing freedoms that enable individual preference-formation, liberal theory embeds a substantive conception of human flourishing.
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    • 1.All value frameworks necessarily privilege some conceptions of the good; neutrality itself is impossible, not unique to liberalism.
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    • 2.Liberal frameworks protect freedoms for *any* conception of the good, including traditional and communal ones, not just self-selecting ones.
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    • 3.Distinguishing freedoms by function (enabling ideal-selection) is descriptive analysis, not hidden privileging of particular substantive ideals.
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