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Argumentum ad populum
You were working with it a few pages ago. Remember when the people and their wishes were important in all of this? :lol: The contradictions keep rolling.
Regardless, liberal socialism is simply illogical as their views on property conflict and must undermine each other leaving both rather nonexistent in any sort of foundation or meaning. In practice what appears to happen is the public side of the equation gets stronger as the system ages, while the private side becomes more of an illusion than anything else. As it stands all around the world all that is really left of the private side of the equation is renting.
Actually, social liberalism is quite simply about finding a balance between these things. One has never been necessarily held as more important than the other and that's where you seem to get things wrong. Like with all ideologies, liberalism examines the best way to govern and makes decisions based a large array of factors (including culture, religion, rights held by the people, obligations of the state etc.).
That's what makes it an ideology and why liberals can and do disagree with each other quite regularly. In contrast, libertarianism, as you have displayed it on this forum for 5 years, is basically "I don't like no gub'mint!". That's not an ideology of any sort, Henrin. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. :shrug: