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> A lot of people, if not the majority (because it's mainstream now), don't realize we no longer live in a society with liberal values of truth, freedom, justice, and equality

I think I missed that history class. When was society ever truthful, free, equal, just?

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society had those values, it doesn't mean that society embodied those values.

What does it even mean to “have” a value you don’t embody?

Lip service.

It means you're honestly trying to achieve the value.

I have a value of being fit and healthy.

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