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The Whig-liberal tradition has led to the well-known notion of ( negative ) freedom as lack of specific coercion.
According to this view, any form of specific coercion is then unethical in itself as an injury to freedom, quite apart from its damaging effects on social progress.
Indeed, the ethical value of ( negative ) freedom is grounded on the idea that conscience cannot be coerced, and is thus the ultimate standard of morality.

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