The first mistake was John Locke insisting that liberty is the predicate of justice. It is not. It can’t be, as his own thought was trying to tell his conscious self. The predicate of justice is mutual respect. Locke’s mistake, in a book published in 1689, determined the course of Western history. For more about Locke’s error, there is “From Locke to Real Justice” (a “9 min. read” in Medium).