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More than conservative ideologies -- religious ones, for instance -- liberalism casts children as outside the realm of subjects -- since it regards the subject fundamentally as an individual atom of self-interested rationality, a criterion that tends to exclude the young, and in liberal theory does as a matter of doctrine. Under 21? No beer, no questions. Liberalism's great equalizing of most forms of sex thus set the stage for an *über*-differentiation of sex involving "children". The sharp ideological differentiation allowed liberals to secure their gains by drawing the child-adult line ever more starkly, and gave conservatives upset by the new liberties a protected redoubt from which to shoot missiles at the market's new Sodoms and Gomorras.
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