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Tolerance is not a moral precept. "Tolerant" societies rely on their population having sufficiently coherent values such that the differences in values can be ignored. Observably, humans can and have sufficiently divergent values that "Tolerance" cannot bridge the gaps.
Humans do not default or even gravitate to the norms and views of a moderate California Liberal circa 1995; mutually incompatible values are quite common. A population's values drift over time, and the capacity for drift is large. Liberalism, at least as it has existed in the last two or three generations, has no comprehension that this is even possible, much less any plan for how to deal with it. Worse, Liberalism seems to actively encourage values-drift, removing the values-coherency that allows it to function in the first place.
Formalized rules cannot constrain human will. All rules have loopholes, and the more complex the ruleset the more loopholes they have. Rules organize cooperation, but are powerless to constrain defection. Liberalism appears to have no native comprehension of the phrase "manipulation of procedural outcomes"; I'm convinced that merely grokking the meaning behind that phrase makes one significantly less liberal.
Atomic individualism is, at a minimum, closer to Hell than Heaven. Humans are social creatures. Humans are hierarchical creatures. Humans need community and structure, and community and structure cannot coexist with monomaniacal maximalization of individual freedom. Social Cohesion and Social Trust do not spring eternal from the void, you have to build and maintain them or they go away, never to return to you.
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