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1. They hated socialism and rejected the perfectibility of man.
2. Soviet socialism‘s optimism about the perfectibility of human society never stood a chance.
3. Maternity is thus fully incorporated into the language of self–perfectibility (give or take a few bad hair days) and this in turn is dependent on exceptionally high levels of personal consumption.
4. Wafted along by their vaporous good intentions, indifferent to any unintended consequences those intentions might engender, wrapped up in their dizzy notions of the perfectibility of humankind, the liberals (at least, as the neos caricatured them) crafted criminal codes devoid of punishment, welfare programs requiring no work.
5. Conclusion, trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature, it is rather a belief that the inevitable errors and sin of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust, freedom, and mutual respect than by restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect people.