Classical liberalism is an evil ideology, nearly as evil as progressivism. It seeks to maximize personal freedom. The cost of personal freedom is order and community.
I disagree. Personal freedom and liberty are inaliable rights and are the greatest drivers of innovation and human evolutionary progress, maximizing them is a noble cause. Conversely, all conflict distills down to competition for scarce resources so "order" and "community" should always be viewed as temporary and subjective to those needs.
There is a balance to be had. The reason disorderly conduct, loitering and making excessive noise are illegal in nearly all places is because total personal freedom just means being an asshole. Your freedom to bang a drum at 3am ends when it keeps all of your neighbors awake. And it should. Classical liberalism undermines society by allowing the asshole with a drum to be an asshole.
More "Government" is seldom an effective solution to problems but more often is just the tyranny of the loudest plurality. In a society with homogeny or philia it would not be necessary for gov to attempt to regulate such behavior because the self determined individuals would self regulate due to their similar value systems. You have been indoctrinated by soicalist-boublethink into believing that individuals cannot solve issues and find resolution on their own but need "community/gov" to do it for them. This is a foolish and dangerous belief system you have developed that inevitably leads to petty tyranny and ignores the reality that order and community are constituted by the individuals and their respective freedoms.(Think, Bill of Rights) Liberty of an individual does not undermine societies order; Liberty determines what level of ethicacy a society structure will possess.
In other words, the more rules or regulations on assholes a community needs the further that government/community is from legitimacy. Research the founding fathers writings on positive and negative rights if you would like to explore these ideas and more fully develop your understanding of these basic and universal truths.
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