According to Walzer, liberties are created by walls – walls between the different spheres of society. In pre-liberal times, “church and state, church-state and university, civil society and political community, dynasty and government, office and property, public life and private life, home and shop: each pair was, mysteriously or unmysteriously, two-in-one, inseparable. Confronting this world, liberal theorists preached and practiced an art of separation.
For a long time we may have thought that this was primarily a problem that existed outside Denmark's borders. But then cases emerged in Denmark too. There have been money laundering cases, there have been deliveries of very large banknotes to bureaux de change, and incorrect advice has been provided in connection with investment products.