The two big factors of freedom are individual liberty and the common good. And where a liberal democracy is functioning, it's when you've got those two things in equilibrium. But that's really hard. You don't want to run to the extremes because both extremes are tyranny. So logically somewhere in the middle, each society has an equilibrium point where those things are in balance.

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