How do we live with each other?

What liberalism means to me

Excerpt: "The tragic, iron law of our species is that human beings living together will differ in ways that they are willing to die over; differ in ways that they are willing to kill over.

If you’re lucky, the worst you’ll ever feel toward another person is irritation or annoyance.

But for most of us — particularly those of us with siblings — at some point we’ll feel what can only be described as murderous rage.

Liberalism sprang out of the unavoidable truth that there will always be reasonable (and unreasonable) disagreement, and that a world where people cannot live among those with whom they disagree is a world of chaos and endless cycles of retribution.

At root, it’s a philosophy that exists to answer one question: How do we live with each other?"