You never stated your disagreement with the core propositions I had identified.
It’s that they’re not the core propositions of liberalism, at least according to the father of liberalism.
Locke is often credited for describing private property as a natural right,
If you’re not at least in broad agreement with John Locke (and other Enlightenment thinkers subscribing to the same philosophy) about what constitutes a natural right, you can’t call yourself a liberal, for the same reason you can’t have liberalism without freedom of religion.
It’s that they’re not the core propositions of liberalism, at least according to the father of liberalism.
If you’re not at least in broad agreement with John Locke (and other Enlightenment thinkers subscribing to the same philosophy) about what constitutes a natural right, you can’t call yourself a liberal, for the same reason you can’t have liberalism without freedom of religion.