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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
My prof said "The liberal value system favours freedom over morality, the egalitarian value system favours morality over freedom. The conflict between these two value systems is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, social conflicts of our time", can you expand on this?

It's a translation. Favours can be translated as "ranks" as well, not sure which fits best.
gpt
Yes, and no.

The liberal value system favours the political conditions that reproduce individual liberty over any other principles, whereas egalitarian systems favour the political conditions that reproduce equality. The professor seems to be operating with two (debatable) hidden premises: the way that liberals describe freedom is broadly correct, and that the principle of equality is ostensibly an ethical principle before it is political. Presumably the professor is a liberal instructing on liberal political theory, because we might say that the struggle between these two poles of liberty and equality, between the protection of individual rights (\*ahem\* private property \*ahem\*) and equality is the conflict at the heart of liberal thought.

Alternatively, this is a lazy provocation based on false narratives of the Cold War.