Reality and fiction, clearly marked. Evidence sections describe the sources; game sections describe authored characters and events. Source-checked does not mean reviewed by a clinician or theologian.
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RESEARCH NOTES
01 Purpose and scope
Full comparison incomplete / Needs review. Five categories remain pending; pending is not historical absence.
1. Defining Liberalism: Political liberalism denotes advocacy for individual liberties, representative democracy, constitutional limits on government power, secular governance, equality before the law, and pluralism. Liberalism must not be conflated with specific party labels, electoral factions, or universal progressive platforms.
2. Defining Social Justice: Social justice strictly denotes advocacy for systemic equity, structural reform of societal institutions, redistribution of resources, and the redressing of systemic oppression or power imbalances. Social justice must not be automatically equated with general charity, individual fairness, or standard liberal legal reform.
3. Overlapping Commitments vs. Intergroup Conduct: Individuals or organizations can hold both liberal and social justice commitments simultaneously. Parallel values or overlapping principles do not constitute an active intergroup interaction between organized counterparts.
4. Six Directional Categories: This record covers both directions across three core behavioral categories (Harmful, Ordinary/Neutral, Supportive). Supplementary commentary is subordinate to the six canonical sections.
5. Methodological Boundaries: Each directional section requires named actors, dates, exact source URLs, and inspected passages. Uninspected leads remain pending.
REAL-WORLD · EVIDENCE
02 1. Liberal → Social Justice — Harmful interactions
Status: Pending source inspection. No category-specific example is established in this bounded pass. This does not establish historical absence.
REAL-WORLD · EVIDENCE
03 2. Liberal → Social Justice — Ordinary / neutral coexistence
Status: Pending source inspection. No category-specific example is established in this bounded pass. This does not establish historical absence.
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04 3. Liberal → Social Justice — Supportive interactions
On May 22, 2012, Nick Clegg publicly endorsed the Sutton Trust’s social-mobility advocacy and advocated addressing class-linked educational barriers. This is public endorsement and structural-equity advocacy, not an established grant, joint project or successful reduction of inequality. His qualification that redistribution alone does not secure mobility is retained. Separate civil-liberties advocacy supports substantive liberal actor fit. Sources [1] [2] [3].
REAL-WORLD · EVIDENCE
05 4. Social Justice → Liberal — Harmful interactions
Status: Pending source inspection. No category-specific example is established in this bounded pass. This does not establish historical absence.
REAL-WORLD · EVIDENCE
06 5. Social Justice → Liberal — Ordinary / neutral coexistence
Status: Pending source inspection. No category-specific example is established in this bounded pass. This does not establish historical absence.
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07 6. Social Justice → Liberal — Supportive interactions
Status: Pending source inspection. No category-specific example is established in this bounded pass. This does not establish historical absence.
RESEARCH NOTES
08 Source inspection notes and qualifications
1. Cabinet Office / Deputy Prime Minister’s Office / Nick Clegg, “Deputy Prime Minister’s speech on social mobility to the Sutton Trust,” May 22, 2012.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/deputy-prime-ministers-speech-on-social-mobility-to-the-sutton-trust
Locators: opening tribute (web lines 68–71); education-system inequality and reform (103–110); discussion of inequality and mobility (124–133).
The official page labels this a transcript exactly as delivered. Opening remarks explicitly praise the Trust’s advocacy; subsequent passages address institutional educational barriers. Preserve his qualification that income redistribution alone is insufficient for mobility, rather than presenting blanket support for every redistributive approach.
Limits: Primary evidence of public expression. Funding, statistics, implementation, causal explanations and outcomes asserted elsewhere in the speech were not independently audited or adopted as verified findings. No grant to the Trust, formal joint project or successful reduction of inequality established here.
2. Cabinet Office / Deputy Prime Minister’s Office / Nick Clegg, “Civil liberties speech: Deputy Prime Minister,” January 7, 2011, Institute for Government, London.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/civil-liberties-speech-deputy-prime-minister
Locators: opening freedom/equality-before-law passages; liberal dispersal of power and individual autonomy (web lines 69–74, 110–120).
Substantive liberal actor fit beyond party labels: explicit advocacy for individual freedoms, legal equality and limits on concentrated state power. Same speaker’s official political text, not independent outcome evidence. Original script may differ from delivery. Party criticism and empirical assertions elsewhere not independently audited.
3. Sutton Trust, official careers site, “Our Organisation,” undated; inspected October 27, 2026.
https://recruitment.suttontrust.com/
Locators: Our Organisation paragraphs (web lines 48–53).
Current institutional self-description identifies research and policy advocacy addressing educational/workplace inequality and socioeconomic barriers. This supplies supplementary institutional context, not independent proof of impact, historical staffing/programme counts, or unchanged policy since 2012. Historical connection is established by the dated speech’s explicit description of the Trust’s advocacy. Failed fetch of https://www.suttontrust.com/about-us/ was not retained as inspected evidence.
Interpretation and method
Named counterparts and public endorsement distinguish this case from generic liberal reform or charity. Social justice is an analytical category for the bounded structural-equity activity; no claim that the Trust endorses every movement or self-identifies with that exact label. Political liberalism is separately supported. One event is one case; no reciprocal category inferred.
Searches: site.gov.uk Nick Clegg speech social mobility unpaid internships 2011; site.suttontrust.com 2012 Clegg mobility; site:suttontrust.com Our mission policy. Search-result-only material was not retained. Bounded inspection, not exhaustive research.
HOLY WARS · FICTION
09 Connection to Holy Wars
Historical research informs the project; characters and game effects remain authored fiction. No gameplay change, automatic alliance or identity-based moral score is approved by this comparison.
RESEARCH NOTES
11 Review and change log
October 27, 2026 — Rowan adapted the canonical audit after William authorized this four-comparison update. Qualifications and five pending categories are preserved. Canonical audits were reread before implementation; this is not a fresh external source audit.