What are the main differences between Democratic Socialism and Social Liberalism?
Democratic Socialism is more of a quantitative idea and is an economic system. This is where socialism would be preferred and/or incorporated by approval of a majority of people in a country. Social liberalism is more qualitative in that it’s ideologically supportive of the government having minimum intervention into the social aspect of people’s lives; i.e., restrictions on abortion, drug use, sympathy and relaxed sentences for criminals, and the abolition of so-called victimless crimes. Basically taking us back to where humans, socially speaking, are living in a state of nature. It other words social liberalism is basically a mark of hedonism where people do what they want, (if it feels good do it), with little to no regard of how their behavior impacts other people or contributes to the moral decline of a society.
