What If...

[Undertoad]

Putting things on a scale (safety at one end, freedom at the other)

Arnold Kling, in his book "The Three Languages of Politics", published in full at this Cato link, says that, basically:

Liberals see the world as a battle between victims and oppressors.

Conservatives see the world as a battle between civilization and barbarism.

Libertarians see the world as a battle between freedom and coercion.

I have not read the full book as of yet.

Everybody has their different frameworks. All three of these are important. The tendency is to pick one and see everything else along that viewpoint. My guess now is that all of human governance doesn't actually solve for just one variable. And that it's human nature itself that won't permit it.

~ but that's just a guess, carry on ~