• nomadjoanne@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The liberty they believe in is different than the more common use of the word, perhaps.

    “liberty to” rather than “liberty from”.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      The terms that you are looking for are “positive liberty” and “negative liberty”. Positive liberty is the freedom to do something, negative liberty is the freedom from something. Libertarians, generally, align more with negative liberty.