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Andrew Koppleman argues that liberalism faces a dilemma. He describes the dilemma in several ways:
The dilemma that liberalism faces is this. The autonomy to which persons are entitled includes, at a minimum, the freedom to form and pursue their own conceptions of the good. In the aggregate, however, such conceptions may form patterns that have damaging effects on some people, including in some cases the impairment of their ability to form and pursue their own conceptions of the good. These conceptions may thus be intolerable to liberalism, yet presumptively immunized from state intervention by liberal principles.
Reference: Koppleman, Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality, p. 217.