Indeed, both David Hume and Adam Smith nominated friendship as the formative metaphor for thicky relations in a "commerce society" (read "market economy"), rather than family relations. For one thing, we choose our friends, while we do not choose our parents. And free choice is at the center of liberal society.

The Ethics of Memory, Avishai Margalit, p. 104

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