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Liberalism is based on a twisting of the classical definition of liberty. Rather than being defined as the freedom from vice in order to pursue the virtuous life, it becomes freedom from any sort of control or restriction.

This leads to the paradoxical result we find ourselves in: in order to have a perfectly free man from all authority, we need a massive authority in the state to remove all other authority.