Choosing a cultural direction requires admitting that some ways of living are more compatible with trust, predictability, and social order than others. That admission contradicts the liberal requirement that the state treat cultures as interchangeable under neutral rules.

January 26, 2026 - 19:51 UTC

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Neutrality therefore prevents liberalism from resolving the problem at its source. It refuses to explicitly rank behaviours and tolerates conduct that undermines the foundational culture it relies upon.
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This tolerance confines liberal multicultural societies to managing the consequences of divergence. The result is a system that declines to judge meaning, but expands procedure. Coercion appears not because liberalism desires it, but because liberalism cannot say what it stands for.
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