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Our social lives consist of a multitude of associations. We choose to befriend, live among, join clubs with, and date and marry some individuals rather than others. Part of what it means to live an autonomous life, in which one is free to live according to one's conception of the good, is the ability to make these associational choices. For this reason, liberals consider the freedom of association - the right to associate with whomever we want, as long as they also choose to associate with us - to be sacrosanct. In John Stuart Mill's words, we have the "right to choose the society most…mehr

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Our social lives consist of a multitude of associations. We choose to befriend, live among, join clubs with, and date and marry some individuals rather than others. Part of what it means to live an autonomous life, in which one is free to live according to one's conception of the good, is the ability to make these associational choices. For this reason, liberals consider the freedom of association - the right to associate with whomever we want, as long as they also choose to associate with us - to be sacrosanct. In John Stuart Mill's words, we have the "right to choose the society most acceptable to us" (Mill 1859). Neither the state nor third parties may interfere with our associations, so long as these associations do not harm others.