Benjamin Cain
1 min readJul 30, 2020

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Of course that's not what I said. Talk about strawmanning. I said the ideal of personal liberty exacerbates social inequality, by way of the individualism that's implicit in that ideal. The focus on the individual leads to egoism, which promotes competition, which causes social divisions (winners and losers).

I didn't say I'm opposed to all human freedoms. I said we should be honest about the unintended consequences of our values.

I'm not a communist or a socialist.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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