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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
#1 - Interesting that he's in a room of predominantly liberals telling them to stop thinking "we're right and they are wrong" and look closer at the reasons why people on the "other team" are for the things they are for.
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I believe that the current (and intended) semantic of 'liberal' is not merely that of individualism, innovation and equality, but nowadays it also stands as a uniform group that opposes conservatism. Therefore, liberals indeed claim that there is a 'right' and a 'wrong'. Hence, in the greater scheme of things, liberalism is no different from conservatism.
So what he implies is that we take a step outside the whole 'preference' bit, even of the whole 'preference for allowing everyone to have their own preference'... and more to an objective perspective, not necessarily one of indifference, but to one where one does not look at the differences in choice, but to try to understand the differences in motives to achieving those choices.