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Ultimately, liberalism says so much about so little and can justify pretty much anything as long as you can credibly claim to be enhancing freedom in the long term. Arguments for state action, redistribution, restorative justice, racialism... All possible.

And we see this with the original thinkers. They clearly took a lot for granted, sometimes even explicitly, and through their actions they werent universalists but rather more similar to me in terms of premises shared.

And ultimately, Locke cant argue against what we see today except as a deviation from his slavery supporting interpretation. But nothing in the ideology explicitly rejects it. Now that society operates under different premises, it's over and he is just making unprincipled exceptions by taking his time period for granted