That’s a definitional discussion: What does the term mean, and who gets to decide which meaning is the actual one?
If we take the literal word root, it just means anything relating to freedom, in which case we could debate whether the “freedom to bomb children” counts as liberal, but I’m not even going to extend that charity.
More relevant to the subject at hand, there are various branches of that philosophy, relating to how liberally they treat different areas of policy such as economic and social regulation. Which form do you consider to be the “actual” liberal philosophy?
So you always look at things with the “original” prism, or the actual meaning?
That’s a definitional discussion: What does the term mean, and who gets to decide which meaning is the actual one?
If we take the literal word root, it just means anything relating to freedom, in which case we could debate whether the “freedom to bomb children” counts as liberal, but I’m not even going to extend that charity.
More relevant to the subject at hand, there are various branches of that philosophy, relating to how liberally they treat different areas of policy such as economic and social regulation. Which form do you consider to be the “actual” liberal philosophy?