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No, that's liberal idealism. The idea that people get to live their lives however it makes them happy because you get one life is a liberal idea. Conservatives want people to live in a constricted environment, usually based on religious idealization. Most liberals just support the rights of people to be happy as long as they aren't hurting others.
The idea of a liberal has been whittled down into some narrow idea by some conservatives, but in reality the guys I'm talking to have no idea what a real liberal is. They have some caricature of a liberal stuck in their head that doesn't reflect the vast majority.
Again, if a man has schizophrenic delusions, enabling these delusions to the point of self-mutilation is not being "compassionate", but downright nihilistic and malicious.
Shrugging your shoulders and saying "well, whatever's fine by you, is fine with me", is never the answer. There are men who are ill, who are not in a good way, who do not know what is best for themselves. That is when other people must step in, and guide them in the right direction.
Liberals want a free environment so that they have the greatest possibilities available to influence the world around them, to put mankind on the right path, so that we may reach our ideals, rather than settling for a modicum of stability that may well be reached by a dictatorship or a theocracy.
Men cutting their own penis, and women eviscerating themselves to the point of no longer being able to give birth, ought to be no one's ideal. That's absolutely insane.
This is a twisted form of nihilism and amorality that has infiltrated and infected the liberal movement, which will be responsible for its doom unless it is put in check. We did not seek freedom only to prove our worth to be less than that of animal's, once we have no supreme power to reign over us.